Posted on 05/26/2022 12:20:06 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The suspect in the Uvalde shooting displayed signs of serious mental illness, but we are incapacitated by political correctness and leftist immorality.
As details emerge about the massacre at Robb Elementary School, we are learning that the suspected shooter, Salvador Ramos, showed obvious signs of severe mental illness and instability.
In a photo circulating across social media, Ramos stands in front of a mirror posing for a selfie. His demeanor is feminine and hypersexual – pouty lips and a shirt provocatively exposing his bare chest. Although this sort of behavior should be an obvious red flag, in a world of political correctness and leftist immorality, so few bat an eye, and innocent lives are irreparably shattered.
As is most often the case with shooting rampages, the suspects are known to authorities, and the alarm was sounded – Salvador Ramos was no different.
Texas school shooter Salvador Ramos once cut up his face with knives ‘just for fun,’ friends say https://t.co/Mw4IsctCAX pic.twitter.com/YvmHGsENMz
— New York Post (@nypost) May 25, 2022 According to Santos Valdez Jr., a former friend, Ramos had previously cut his face up with a knife “just for fun” and was known to shoot at random people with BB guns. Other classmates recalled he ‘cut himself’ saying, “I like how it looks.” Nadia Reyes, a high school acquaintance, said Ramos posted videos to social media documenting domestic fights with his mother as law enforcement was present.
With all these very clear and glaring warning signs, why wasn’t this tragedy prevented? After all, the FBI budget request for 2023 is nearly $11 billion, and if they have time and generous amounts of taxpayer dollars to expend on investigating a garage pull, they should be able to identify real threats.
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Because cops and the FBI don't have the resources to be everywhere known mentally ill people happen to be. AND THE SCHOOL WAS A GUN FREE ZONE! So there were no people there who could prevent or stop this from happening AND THE SHOOTER KNEW IT! If there were designated, trained AND ARMED individuals on the faculty and/or staff on the premises and the fact was publicly known there is a very good chance this would not have happened and many innocent lives would have been saved.
Unless they commit a crime or an offense, nothing can be done at all.
Just because someone has mental health issues or displays signs of aggression does not mean they will kill a bunch of people.
Mental health is not a crime, nor is aggressive demeanor.
So, lets go back to focusing on the real problems as to why these kids do what they do!
This is very true, you are on your own until something catastrophic happens.
They ignored it then bc:
-Not white
-Not straight
-Not religious
They ignore it now bc:
-Not white
-Not straight
-Not religious
Lefties immediately went into “he’s a victim too” mode as soon as it was discovered the killer was a tranny. Mental illness is the main characteristic of their followers.
That’s why.
The mentally ill were “mainstreamed” back into society beginning back in the 1950’s and I don’t see any movement to reverse this. If everyone that was wacky was institutionalized the streets would be empty.
“I believe they KNOW who every nut case around the country is.”
You lost me right there. Government might indeed be nefarious but they are also incompetent. If they don’t know half their employees are watching porn during office hours, then they certainly don’t know who every nut case in the country is.
My x bro in law 16 yr old son posted pics of himself holding guns threatening to kill another classmate. He was reported to the school. The school refuses to do anything. This was 2 weeks ago. Reported to police. Still nothing. This in a town of 1,500
It appears that if the school had locked the outside side door and the doors to all classrooms Ramos would have not gotten quick access to the children and might have been stopped.
At what point do we realize that “mentally ill” is now such a huge umbrella that it has lost all functional meaning or purpose.
Further - How have we so “evolved” to think that mental illness - in a day of more awareness and attempts to “help” than ever - is still an excuse for such abject evil?
“Feelings”
“Tone”
“Sensitivity”
“Tolerance”
All code words for “we refuse to hold people accountable”.
If someone is mentally ill - and poses a tangible danger to those around them - they should never be allowed around people they can harm. IF there is a way to treat/repair what is broken - then do that before any chance of them being around people they could hurt.
On the federal 4473, the form one signs when buying a gun from an FFL dealer para f. makes you swear you haven’t been “adjudicated mentally defective” or “been committed to a mental institution.”
This punk apparently hadn’t been either but the point is that every state in the union has provision to examine people who do stupid stuff, get them before a judge, and have them declared incompetent, etc. They DO NOT have to have done something legally criminal. But the folks around them have a responsibility to identify them and force the issue. This IS THE WAY we keep them from buying firearms , driving busses, becoming pharmacists, and a whole lot of other stuff. We have a nearby institution that is full of people who haven’t shot up a school but can’t be trusted to feed themselves. Many are in about the same shape as Ramos: they think they are someone else, say stupid stuff like “do you know who I am”, hurt themselves, and an endless string of anti social stuff.
At the same time we have to guard against the bitter ex-wife charge that a guy is “violent.” But we now have a way to handle that also.
The mentally I’ll are no longer locked up. You might get a three day hold but there are no long term facilities
Agreed!!
“Common denominators of left wing hoodlums.”
You misspelled “politicians”.
Unlike what you find in most countries in the world, U.S. law is built on two foundations: (1) presumed innocence, and (2) due process. In practical terms, what this means is that it is damn near impossible to deny any person of his rights until AFTER he is arrested, tried and convicted of a crime.
Two basic steps that could help mitigate -- but not prevent -- the impacts of lunatics on our society are:
1. Prosecute all crimes vigorously -- and evenhandedly. Getting people into the criminal justice system even for petty crimes makes it easier to treat them harshly when they become repeat offenders.
2. Stop this nonsense about sealing juvenile criminal records. If some stunted misfit was a violent criminal at the age of 14, you can be damn sure that he isn't likely to be a responsible adult when he turns 18.
The narrative is going to take a hit with this coming out.
Floridahasan airtight law.
Synonyms. 😆
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