Posted on 09/02/2019 9:43:51 PM PDT by familyop
FBI special agent Christopher Combs said Ator called the agency’s tip line...making “rambling statements about some of the atrocities that he felt that he had gone through.” “He was on a long spiral of going down,” Combs said. “He didn’t wake up Saturday morning and walk into his company and then it happened. He went to that company in trouble.” ...Ator had previously failed a federal background check for a firearm, said John Wester, an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Wester did not say when Ator failed the background check or why.
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Umm ... Pretty sure I read that he made multiple 911 calls which might have put the police on his tail and allowed them to pull him over for failing to signal a lane change?
Whatever went on I’ll take the 911 tapes for consideration regardless how our wonderful FIBs characterize his calls.
Public records. Get them before they’re erased automatically after 90 days - at least that’s the way the do things in parts of Florida.
In Texas who knows? Why is the FBI there? Federal crime to shoot anyone on an interstate highway? Where are the local LEOS?
Where are the newsies? Someone calls in a 911 fire report and its on the 6pm news.
We know his social media is gone? Too many questions, very few answers.
Shout it from the rooftops!
We didn't have such a preponderance of psycho killers until doctors began handing out psych meds like they were candy.
Pot doesn't make people violent or crazy, but psych drugs most definitely do.
Yes, I'd like to see the toxicology report, as well. Guaran-damn-tee you, he was on psych drugs.
It was said early on that this scumbag called the local police and the FBI before this event started, were they sleeping at the time? no rush? what and see
He tried to legally buy a gun. That is when a check showed he was not eligible for the purchase to be completed. The FBI or ATF or DPS would not know if he later went out and illegally obtained a gun. Until of course it was used in a crime.
Now for law enforcement to do the job you think they are supposed to do would mean putting 24 hour surveillance on this or any other person who failed the required background check for firearm’s purchase. Any attempt to purchase a gun (legal source or illegal source) and immediate incarceration. No due process needed.
What I want to know is with his behavior spiraling down why did no one report he was a danger to himself or others? Is Texas one of those states where such a person can be involuntarily held at a mental health facility for 72 hours for observation and possible treatment?
A good friend of mine works in the criminally insane unit of our State hospital. They try to get them fit to stand trial
She was telling me yesterday that most of the ones in her unit did their dirty deeds when they went off their meds
My comment was, and she agreed, that for every one of them in custody, there are likely a thousand still walking around out there everyday, just a pill or 2 away from going off the deep end
Since records of successful background checks are only kept for 24 hours by the NICS before being deleted, it's quite likely the firearm he had was legally purchased in the past before an event occurred that caused him to fail a subsequent check.
Failed background checks are kept indefinitely, though they aren’t kept in the NICS database indefinitely. The NICS logs those transactions and keeps a database of denied applications for a period of 10 years, after which it is transferred to an FBI database.
For the Baby Boomers here, some explanation is in order.
God made the marijuana plant. God also made the plant contain a big long chemical called THC. That's what gets people high (including most boomers back in college days). God also got off the boat at about 7% THC.
There is something called by the same name today (marijuana) that has as much as 30% THC. How does it get there? Only the people that grow it know. They do all sorts of crazy things, from adding chemicals, to crazy stuff they do to the plants, to cause this increase.
What does this do to the product? How much of this stuff remains? Is it safe? Who the hell knows.
So to the boomers reading articles like this, you must remember - this is not your marijuana. This is some ‘creation’ containing who knows what, that does who knows what to people. Even in my college days, I wasn't really a big fan of the stuff - but I wouldn't touch the stuff today that is being passed off as marijuana with a ten foot pole.
Gun Control is not about making you safer.
It is about making politicians and bureaucrats safer. They have plans for you that they can’t implement while you can still shoot back.
BTW: Lefties like to weaponize things like psychiatry - as far they are concerned, you’re mentally for wanting to own a firearm or not going along with their plans for a perfect society.
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LOL ...... Harry Jacob Anslinger, alright. What a guy. /s
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The guy had problems, ongoing and increasing problems, he even called the police and FBI. Shame on them for not acting. And, yes, this is the "mental health" issue that we need to address, not new gun laws.
So whenyou get stoned on weed, you eat a coupla cheeseburgers and pass out, and when you are out throwing down shots and beers you turn into Bruce Willis in 'Die Hard 276' an old man beating up on cripples in their wheel chairs and hospital gurneys.
But that's just you, it doesn't work the same for all the other 'neuro system bad boys' roaming around the hospital wards.
I've read all kinds of stuff from he was a meth head, two time felon and so forth.
His arrest record are misdemeanors. This would not have kept him from passing a background check in Texas unless it was recent convictions...then he'd have a waiting period before being qualified again.
I read the guy was associated with Antifa...anyone else read this sort of stuff?
This is pure poppycock. If it were true, we'd seen this phenomenon back in the 60’s when wide spread marijuana use came on to the scene.
Besides the legal drug alcohol...which incidentally has killed more Americans than all drugs COMBINED, marijuana is the most commonly used illegal drug and is largely benign as drugs go.
This guy was psychotic. This is more indicative of methamphetamine behavior or psychotropic drug use or sudden halt to the medication.
“we’d seen this phenomenon back in the 60’s when wide spread marijuana use came on to the scene”
I don’t think it was a problem when people threw some marijuana seeds in the ground and harvested the plants a couple of months later.
It’s a far different story when somebody soaks the seeds in some kind of paint solvent, and puts acetone in the water the plant grows in, all in the name of increasing the amount of THC in the leaves. I have no idea what that is, or what it might be doing to people.
In short, marijuana as God designed it is probably OK. The Frankenstein plants these modern growers create - nobody knows for sure what they may be doing to people.
You got the wrong guy, man.
I didn’t say anything about weed.
You are correct sir. I clicked on the wrong message.
Fingers too big.
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