How useless is the FBI?
Once again, this isn’t about gun control, it’s about treating people with these mental issues and keeping them locked up.
Brandon Scott Hole, of Indiana, stormed the FedEx operations center in Indianapolis on Thursday night where he killed eight people and injured seven others before turning the gun on himself.
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he was "suicidal" when the FBI were called. Many if not all mass and serial murderers fail at offing themselves before their own killing sprees.
And it's obvious that the FBI, the Indianapolis police, and the prosecutor dropped the ball, since Indiana's red flag law could have prevented the shooter from being able to legally buy the guns used in the shooting....
So this was another case of the appropriate gun laws being in effect, but not enforced!!!!!
In March 2020, the police seized a shotgun from Mr. Hole after his mother raised concerns about his mental state, records show. But, Chief Randal Taylor said, the fact that Mr. Hole was legally able to make the more recent gun purchases indicated that — despite his mother’s warning and the police seizure of a gun — the authorities had not deemed him subject to Indiana’s so-called red flag law, which bars people from possessing a firearm if they are found by a judge to present a dangerous risk.
Under Indiana’s red flag law, the authorities have two weeks after taking someone’s weapon to argue before a judge that the person is unstable and should be barred from possessing a gun for a period of time. Chief Taylor said he was unsure whether a hearing like that ever took place in the case of Mr. Hole, though the police never returned the shotgun they had seized last year.
“I don’t know how we held onto it,” Mr. Taylor said in an interview on Saturday night. “But it’s good that we did.”
However, the chief added, Mr. Hole went on to “legally purchase a much more powerful weapon than a shotgun.” On Saturday night, the Police Department announced that the two assault-style rifles that Mr. Hole used in Thursday’s attack were bought in July and September of 2020.
Those purchases, the chief suggested, would have been possible only if a red flag determination had never been made. Red flag laws, which exist in more than a dozen states, moved to the center of the national conversation about gun regulation after a massacre at a Florida high school in 2018.
It remains uncertain whether a judge ruled against a red flag determination in Mr. Hole’s case or whether prosecutors took his case before a judge at all.
The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office did not respond to questions about whether they pursued a red flag ruling against Mr. Hole. A search of online court records did not reveal any such case associated with his name.