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FBI: West Texas gunman ‘was on a long spiral of going down’
Associated Press ^ | September 2, 2019 | PAUL J. WEBER and JAKE BLEIBERG

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.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; godandcountrytroll; midland; nra; odessa; secondamendment; sethator; texas
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To: familyop
You're talking to a recovering alcoholic and drug addict here, ok? Weed never made a raving maniac out of anyone, so cut the crap. Meth, yeah, marijuana, no. It doesn't have that kind of effect on the human body and booze is FAR more destructive on the mind, body and society but no one is calling for the return of alcohol prohibition.
61 posted on 09/03/2019 10:46:44 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: gogeo

Your logic is the same as people who think the entire NRA are a bunch of AR-15 owners who are chomping at the bit to go on a shooting rampage.


62 posted on 09/03/2019 10:48:43 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: a little elbow grease

Harry J. Anslinger. A guy with sh!t for brains and the biggest “Napoleonic ‘’Complex of all time!


63 posted on 09/03/2019 10:51:07 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: USS Alaska

Oh for Christ sake another Cassandra warning us of the danger of “The Evil Weed’’.


64 posted on 09/03/2019 10:52:49 AM PDT by jmacusa ("If wisdom is not the Lord, what is wisdom?''.)
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To: jmacusa

re: “Oh for Christ sake another Cassandra warning us of the danger of “The Evil Weed’’. “

Yeah, HWGA - assuming YOUR experiences is the SAME experience for every other person’s physiology AND psychological make up AS WELL AS up-bringing and personal experience . ..


65 posted on 09/03/2019 11:00:23 AM PDT by _Jim (Save babies)
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To: Lee Enfield

Pot is more resultant than causative

Alienation is primary causative

It’s such a common almost ubiquitous characteristic


66 posted on 09/03/2019 11:03:28 AM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: familyop

I worked in prison ministry when I was younger.

I noticed two things in common with the prisoners - nearly all had smoked pot and nearly all had tattoos.

Now smoking pot doesn’t mean that you are (in other aspects) a criminal. Having a tattoo doesn’t mean that you have been in prison.

But why, for goodness sake, would you emulate in any way people who are in prison?

A tattoo is not (in the vast majority of cases) a resume enhancer. Pot, cigarettes, liquor - in excess - do little to make your life better.

Partaking of any of the above is - to some extent - a self destructive act.


67 posted on 09/03/2019 11:28:04 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: GodAndCountryFirst

How?

Things were already crappy for him, then He was fired - then pulled over.
He snapped. Nothing related to an Islamic terror attack.


68 posted on 09/03/2019 12:03:33 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: I cannot think of a name

Not all weed out there is that high in THC. Just as any plant can become a hybrid - it doesn’t make it dangerous. We now have some regulations an lab testing to ensure safety. You can get it with as low as 1% THC to 28%. Want CBD too in it or not? Far from dangerous because it’s changed.


69 posted on 09/03/2019 12:07:58 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: wardaddy

Thank you for your reply. I only hope gets it.


70 posted on 09/03/2019 12:10:22 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: jmacusa

Bingo!


71 posted on 09/03/2019 12:11:50 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Lee Enfield

I knew a schizophrenic who took haloperidol for it and drank coffee like crazy

He would pace all night

He got released from the penitentiary and immediately robbed a bank with a note written on stationary from his halfway house

Pitiful


72 posted on 09/03/2019 12:29:13 PM PDT by wardaddy (I applaud Jim Robinson for his comments on the Southern Monuments decision ...thank you)
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To: jmacusa
Harry J. Anslinger. A guy with sh!t for brains and the biggest “Napoleonic ‘’Complex of all time!

_________

LOL ......... sort of like Warren Wilhelm Jr. (Mayor DeBlasio of NY).

lol

73 posted on 09/03/2019 1:14:16 PM PDT by a little elbow grease (... to err is human, to admit it divine ...)
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To: familyop

Most (not all, but most) spree shooters have people all around them scared for days to years. Most have been repeatedly seen by medical people, law enforcement, or both.


74 posted on 09/03/2019 1:16:26 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: familyop

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>> “Just like the others—drugs!” <<

Yep, all through early childhood, ordered by the school district!

We manufacture our mass killers, and catalogue them for use.
.


75 posted on 09/03/2019 1:18:05 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: BenLurkin

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“Ritalin!”

Custom crafted mass murderers.


76 posted on 09/03/2019 1:19:59 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Jim Noble

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It begins when their primary grade school teechur tags them for the drugging.


77 posted on 09/03/2019 1:23:21 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: HollyB

“We now have some regulations an lab testing to ensure safety. “

On what planet is this happening?

Most of the young people that work for me that smoke buy it from ‘some guy’ or a friend that gets it from ‘some guy’ or someone they met at a club, etc.

Not one of them buys it with a certificate of conformance or any other such certification. And they all have stories about some ‘butt kicking’ stuff that put them out for ‘xxx’ hours, etc, etc. I don’t know what they got, they don’t know what they got, but I can assure something had been done to it. Hopefully nothing with long lasting effects.


78 posted on 09/03/2019 1:50:41 PM PDT by I cannot think of a name (no)
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To: Lee Enfield
There IS one cause; and that is SIN.
79 posted on 09/03/2019 2:05:47 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: jmacusa
Your logic is the same as people who think the entire NRA are a bunch of AR-15 owners who are chomping at the bit to go on a shooting rampage.

What if a person has an AR-15 and is NOT an NRA member?

80 posted on 09/03/2019 2:07:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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