Today the FBI admits it failed to investigate after someone close to Cruz called the FBI about Cruz’s guns and desire to kill people. This appears to be on top of the reporting by the youtuber of Cruz’s comment online about wanting to shoot at a school.
If we want to talk about obvious non-controversial steps we can take to prevent mass shootings, how about figuring out how law enforcement can be more effective/competent?
We can do this and make it harder to get guns that can kill 50 people in one minute.
That’s either hyperbole or a skilled shooter.
We can do both. But that is never a significant part of the debate. Accepting that even modest gun control laws are difficult to enact and simultaneously recognized as probably not very effective, how about pouring more energy into things that look more promising? This isn’t the first case where red flags were ignored.