Posted on 04/19/2021 10:52:35 AM PDT by Hojczyk
How did the mass murder perpetrator in last week’s shooting at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis have the ability to buy his firearms? Both local police and the FBI had intervened a year earlier after his family warned law enforcement about his mental health, and police had seized his shotgun at that time. Shouldn’t that have initiated a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law to bar Brandon Scott Hole from acquiring replacement firearms?
It might have, the county prosecutor told the media today, had they pressed the red-flag case. Instead, Ryan Mears said, they stopped at the confiscation because prosecutors didn’t want to press their luck in court:
A former FedEx employee who shot and killed eight people at a FedEx facility in Indianapolis never appeared before a judge for a hearing under Indiana’s “red flag” law, even after his mother called police last year to say her son might commit “suicide by cop,” a prosecutor said Monday.
Authorities believed they had done what they needed to by seizing the pump-action shotgun from Brandon Scott Hole in March 2020, Marion County Prosecutor Ryan Mears said.
Mears added, “I think this case illustrates the limitations” of the law. At the very least, one can conclude that this case illustrates the limitations of prosecutors. Essentially, they created the worst of all worlds in this outcome, even if their intentions were good. The decision to stop the red-flag process left them in possession of Hole’s property indefinitely, which is at some point an unconstitutional seizure without due process. On top of that, the failure to follow through on the threat allowed Hole to acquire more firearms, which made the confiscation useless anyway.
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If anyone has to wonder: This Ryan Mears guy is a Rat.
On the one hand, I have to commend the court for its restraint for not imposing a “Red Flag” ruling. The Red Flag laws are bad laws, and should be repealed as soon as possible.
That said, there were a dozen other mechanisms that should have swung into action to constrain this particular subject long before he attained the opportunity to attack innocents.
It’s not “the gun”, it’s the person that needs to be dealt with, and that starts with admitting that “care in the community” is an absolute failure, and that people as disturbed as this guy should be institutionalized for their own protection not to mention the protection of society.
Did you catch that little tid bit?
“... left them in possession of Hole’s property indefinitely,”
IOW, it was their PLAN to take his proprty, without due process, and never give it back. Now if I take your property, without due process, and never intend to give it back, that is call theft. So they just flat up STOLE his shotgun from him.
But if you had "laid for" your neighbor and jumped him in the dark off-camera and beaten him to a pulp, the popo would have been ALL OVER you.
The left want all existing gun laws to fail. That’s why they don’t enforce them. They want to be able to say “guns laws don’t work. Therefore we need total confiscation.”
Not so much in Louisiana.
Facilities for the mentally ill do.
I've been saying the same thing for years.
There weren't many mass shootings back when crazy people got to live in the county home.
By what legal authority did they do that? Would that same authority allow them to add him to the NICS list of prohibited persons?
because the FBI used him , groomed him, to be their next shooter in the ongoing saga of we need to confiscate all weapons.
Because the police stole the shotgun and the records would be "inconvenient".
What I want to know is, where is the shotgun?
Load up that confiscated weapon with birdshot and let the victim’s families examine and hold the weapon they kept from the mentally ill man while the prosecutor stands 8 feet away mooning them.
If the prosecutor gets more than 8 pellets in his rump, he’s fired.
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AS USUAL!!
My question remains open.
Funny how that happens so often.
Nobody seems to know. He was probably just a pissed off bullied nerd.
What this story demonstrates is the intentional limitations of the red flag laws. They are meant to disarm those law-abiding Americans of firearms legally held with no intent of using them wrongly, in favor or inspiring such mass shootings as this, all in order to pimp more egregious gun control policies. Nobody is fooled by the non-enforcement of red flag laws against whom the authorities are confident will carry out mass murder. Someone should notify red flag cheerleader Dan Crenshaw of this insidious plan, because he seems to have been taken for a ride.
Must not put them in chains in any facility. Could be potential dim voters and/or being helpful for gun controlling ‘events’.
Sums up every single Liberal initiative in history
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