Blame this squarely on the fbi.
Then the FBI wanted him to do this.
They are the ones who dropped the ball, or deliberately let him get one.
Once again showing that background checks are pretty much useless except for recording who is buying a gun. I think that is really the goal. It sure isn’t to make us safer.
Once again, the FBI has eyes on someone that causes death and destruction. Odd how that keeps happening.
The terrorist’s family said he was mentally ill. Then they stated days prior to the shooting mentally ill boy was sitting on a couch playing with what they descried as a “Machine gun”.
So mentally ill boy is playing with machine gun and the family does zip nothing?
Sounds like a good pretext to build a massive database of your medical history and internet postings as part of a background check.
“Hmmm... it says here you complained about the grade you received from an Asian teacher when you were 16 years old. No soup for you!”.
So how would universal background checks have prevented this shooting? The truth is that gun laws are intended to punish gun owners, not save lives.
this isn’t a win. people are missing the point. the fact that this guy passed a background check two weeks before he gunned down a dozen people will only create more hysterical calls for more intrusive background checks.
people never learn that failings of government simply create demand for more government.
Pretty sure the FL nightclub shooter and the CA Christmas party shooter both passed background checks.
It’s the Islam, stupid.
What is the point of the FBI watch list?
I am most certainly NOT calling for any kind of 'reform'.
“on condition of anonymity”...meaning there is no way to fact-check whether this is true or not. I’m leaning towards CFN (Cable Fiction Network) inventing this in order to help demand stronger background checks.
Watch the gun dealer get sued.
Note that Colorado already has the trifecta of gun control measures being pushed.
Universal background checks
Magazine limits
Red flag laws
... and still a mentally deranged (sudden jihad syndrome) person was able to pass a background check and carry out a mass shooting with limited magazines.
What ultimately stopped this bad guy, was a good guy with a gun. The reason that the number of dead was so high is because there were not more armed citizens who were prepared to stop the guy.
The call should be for MORE guns,
"Passing a background check" doesn't take the place of judgement.
Why shouldn’t he?
What actionable acts had the asshole committed? What medical diagnosis of dangerous mental illness had been made for him?
Folks, murderous maniacs will always be with us. They don’t obey laws and they will find the means to act out their fantasies.
The tragedy is that the law meant that there were no armed citizens in the store to stop him.
BFL
Last time I took the background check to purchase a firearm (before the tragic boat accident), the process was pretty much automated. I filled out the form on a computer or iPad, hit “send”, digitally signed it, and the info went directly to the Fibbies for evaluation. The result was back in a couple of minutes.
If the FBI says “Ok”, then it’s Ok and well documented. The store is not liable for the FBI’s errors.
Interestingly, this Jihad-minded thug passed the background check, but Laura Loomer was placed on some sort of “can’t buy a gun” list. If that doesn’t illustrate the political agenda of the feds to all, then people are even stupider than I thought.
FBI spends too much time supporting political repression.
translation? he bought it with the express approval of the FIB!
Has the media even mentioned the fact that the grocery store advertises kosher food and the shooter drove out of his way to get there. And it’s almost Passover, which is celebrated by several traditional Jewish dinners?