A neck tat requires extra scrutiny in my book and the kid had/has the dead eyes so common in these murderers. Talked to many a cop and corrections officers over the years, they all say that the dead eyes puts them on heightened alert. Fortunately looks do reveal something about the character of a person.
So under what law would you apply extra scrutiny? Are you advocating for a Red Flag law which Texas currently doesn’t have? He had zero in his Federal background check that would have been flagged he passed his Fed check. Under current Texas law you would have to get a judge to involuntarily commit the person for a 72 hour eval and then if found to be a danger to themselves or other’s that same judge must issue an order for commitment and also declare the person mentally unfit. This is how you get a hit in the Fed database. If Texas had a Red Flag law then a family member could have went to the police and then they would have to look at his social media and do a local investigation then again a judge must issue the red flag. These kinds of first offenders are going to be nearly impossible to stop they don’t have the criminal nor mental health care back grounds to disqualify them without additional laws being passed. Then those laws will be abused by X wives and girlfriends for sure.
You’re right. Looks reveal that different people have different tastes as far as clothing, hair style, tattoos, etc. They also reveal that they might have different amounts of money. Just because someone likes a neck tattoo because they think it makes them look tough or cool doesn’t mean you should infringe upon their rights. And just because someone looks like they have “dead eyes” whatever the eff that is supposed to mean, likewise doesn’t mean you should infringe upon their god-given rights. The “dead eyes” look could be caused from something as simple as being on allergy medicine where the anti-histamine is making the person feel sleepy or out of it. I know if my allergies are acting up and I take something like Claritin for them it almost always does this to me.