Crime

Disturbing Background

Most of the time, when a mass shooting happens, we find out that quite a few people knew that the person doing the shooting was displaying all sorts of worry behavior. In every one of these cases, one of several things turn out to be the case: no one reported it, or someone reported it, but authorities did nothing, or some authority didn’t follow the procedures that needed to be followed.

The shooting in Uvalde was no exception. It turns out that he was threatening people with violence, as well as being known for torturing and killing animals.

On one social media app, several people reported him for sending threats and just making some downright creepy comments. Since he wasn’t supporting conservative causes, the platform didn’t see fit to take any action. In other cases, people heard what he said and just didn’t report it.

“He would threaten everyone,” she said. “He would talk about shooting up schools but no one believed him, no one would think he would do it.”

His acquaintances knew him as someone who would catch, torture, and kill cats before carrying their mutilated bodies around in a plastic bag.

People knew all of this, yet no one reported it. Background checks don’t do any good if people don’t report things in a person’s background that will disqualify them.

By Divemedic, ago

Small town, big problem

A Texas state senator, Tony Gonzales, claimed that the shooter in Uvalde was arrested in 2018 for plotting a school shooting for 2022, which would be as soon as he turned 18.

The police in Uvalde are saying that this isn’t true, and that the kids who was arrested four years ago for planning a shooting in 2022 was a totally different kid.

There are only two possibilities here:

  1. The police are covering their asses because they are either complicit or incompetent. I mean, how bad would it look that this kid announced he would be a shooter four years ago, you knew it, and still didn’t prevent it or even keep an eye on him.
  2. The Uvalde high school, with its graduating class of 204 students, has two school shooters in 2022, which would make them about 1,000,000 times above the mean in the number of mass shooters in their school

Let’s keep an eye out and see if they ever answer this particular question.

By Divemedic, ago

Spacey a Pedo, Too?

Or just a gay rapist? The rapes happened in 2005 to 2008. The victims are in their 30’s and 40’s. Doing the math, his victims could have been as young as 16. Spacey was in his 40’s at the time.

Is there anyone in a position of wealth and power in this country that isn’t a sexual deviant?

By Divemedic, ago

Hard to Trace?

That doesn’t appear to be the case, because they had no problem here. I’m wondering where the ‘tip’ that he was making guns came from. We all know about the NSA analysis of internet traffic. Was it that?

I’m glad he was caught, but what is a guy with 9 felony convictions doing as a free man?

By Divemedic, ago

My Thoughts on Uvalde

Anther shooting, and the left is predictably dancing in the victim’s blood before the scene is even cleared or the families of the dead are notified. It’s so predictable: calls for gun control that would not have mattered. The current calls are for universal background checks (in other words, gun registration). This young man who did the shooting had a clear record, would have passed a background check, and a proposed BG check law would have done nothing.

No, every shooting and its victims are simply political fodder to advance a political agenda. The left doesn’t give a rip about the victims, except to the extent that they can be used to advance that agenda, truth and facts be damned. As we proved just this week on this very blog, the left doesn’t care about facts, logic, or the truth.

To debate the left about gun control is a complete waste of time, because they won’t listen. So I just won’t do it. You want gun control? No. Your move.

No, what I want to talk about is social media’s responsibility for this shooting. He was a troubled child that grew into a troubled young man. The clues were there, but as often happens in these cases, no one said anything. Word is, the shooter posted pictures of his guns to social media, and said that a shooting was coming. He actually told one woman it was coming.

In the hours leading up to the killings, the shooter reportedly showed off his guns to an LA-based woman via his Instagram page, taunting that he was ‘about to do’ something.

When the woman asked what, he said: ‘I’ll tell you before 11.’ He began shooting at noon.

The school had purchased technology to monitor social media, but it apparently didn’t work.

So now we come to the point I am trying to make. I have been tossed into Facebook jail dozens of times. Sometimes within minutes of posting something that didn’t agree with their leftist viewpoints. So how can a person post threats to carry out a mass shooting, and Instagram (the site where the threatening posts were made) didn’t notice?

The technology exists for social media companies to monitor what people post. We know it, because they have done it for the past several years. Why don’t they report these things? The only possible answer is that they don’t because they WANT more shootings so the dead victims can be used to advance their agenda.

By Divemedic, ago

Nailed It

Revisiting the police shooting at a Central Florida Target store, it looks like the police DID get this one right. There was a gun in the car (a gold plated Glock with a 30 round magazine) and the criminals tried using their car to ram police vehicles and run over a deputy.

The deputies involved were detectives and were not road deputies, so did not have body cameras. However, the police did release security camera video from the Target store that shows the Audi with the critters in it ramming police vehicles.

Of course, there are apologists for the criminals. Sandman USAF had this to say:

There is no law in Florida that says I can’t carry an extended magazine just like I can have a military style rifle thay I have used in Afghanistan. No one should die for petty theft of some trading cards.

My reply to that was this:

Lie. The rifle you would have carried in Afghanistan would have been a military M4, which is classified under US law as a “machine gun” and has been outlawed since 1986. There is a law that says you can’t carry a handgun unless you have a permit, which people under 21 cannot get. They didn’t die for Pokemon and Pizza. They died because they tried to use their car as a weapon against cops.

Had they surrendered to the cops, it is likely that nothing would have happened to them. Target doesn’t want even charges pressed. Even if Target wanted to press charges, a plea deal would have meant misdemeanor petty theft charges and some probation. Instead, these pillars of the community (/sarc) turned what would have been a stern talking to into attempted murder of a cop and a police shooting. Stupidity.

By Divemedic, ago