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James_Madison_Lives
06-20-2016, 12:00 AM
http://hubpages.com/politics/The-Ridiculously-Easy-Way-the-FBI-Might-Have-Prevented-the-Orlando-Shooting-and-Why-it-is-Criminal-They-Didnt


After the Orlando shooting, as usual, the FBI is sliming its way out of giving answers by the simple tactic of the politicians asking the wrong questions. We read how the shooter could not have been prevented (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/16/doj-overrules-fbi-gun-sales-debate/) from buying a high-capacity, semi-automatic, high-velocity rifle because he was not actively on a watchlist, even though, incredibly, he had been on one recently and had even been interviewed by the FBI for terrorist sympathies at least three times, that we know of.

From Trump to Hillary we now hear cries of outrage that terror suspects on watchlists should not be allowed to buy guns, as if that were the problem. But that is not the problem. The problem is that a former terror watch suspect sailed through the FBI's own background check (http://hubpages.com/politics/No-This-is-Not-the-Worst-Mass-Shooting-in-US-History-Remember-Sand-Creek) databases, which told the FBI he was trying to buy a massacre weapon, and the FBI did nothing about it.

Okay, let's back up. You are an FBI agent. You have this guy sitting in front of you that you have a bad feeling about, but you really have nothing on him. Nothing you can prosecute. What are your assets? You own the databases everyone must pass to be allowed to buy a gun. You have to let the guy walk, and can't even keep him on the watchlist. At the least, the very least, wouldn't you make GD sure you knew if he was trying to buy a gun? That part's easy.... http://hubpages.com/politics/The-Ridiculously-Easy-Way-the-FBI-Might-Have-Prevented-the-Orlando-Shooting-and-Why-it-is-Criminal-They-Didnt

Zippyjuan
06-20-2016, 01:49 AM
Can't arrest somebody because you have a gut feeling they "might" do something.