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They were called to a domestic violence situation on him more than 20 times. You do not need a warrant to see if there are weapons on the premises in that case.

The tip was: he’s threatened to shoot people. Did you follow this case at all?

Looks like you should apply for a job with the FBI. Great investigative skills.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/02/21/us/school-shooter-gun-threats-first-host-family-told-police-invs/index.html

Excerpt:

Just months before Nikolas Cruz killed 17 at his former high school in South Florida, the host family who had taken him in immediately after his mother's death warned local law enforcement that the 19-year-old had "used a gun against people before" and "has put the gun to others' heads in the past," according to records obtained by CNN.

It's the latest indication of how law enforcement encountered warning signs about Cruz's violent behavior before he attacked students and teachers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine's Day.

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Interested to see what maporsche will say now.

Wonder who wanted your factual, informative response hidden, Glenn?

When he was in the fourth grade he liked to bloody up squirrels with his pellet gun, and then he started on chickens. I'm also guilty of doing this as a child. Within minutes of owning a BB gun I was on the hunt for small animals.

As a teenager he snuck into his neighbor's yard and tried to get his dogs to attack their baby pigs. Can't say I've done this specifically, but as a child I've been guilty of ruining birds nests that have eggs in them.

One neighbor saw him ramming long sticks into rabbit holes, apparently trying to kill anything trapped inside. As a child I used to put alka seltzer tablet into bread and try to get seagulls to eat them, just so I could watch them blow up.

Some neighbors said they called the cops on him frequently, and cop cars were at his house regularly to deal with the latest complaint against him. I guess he didn't break any laws? Or couldn't be convicted of breaking any.

Later he became more isolated, withdrawing from even his brother. Then others finally withdrew from him because he started posting scary posts on Instagram and photos of stuff like the bloodied body of a dead frog, and that he wanted to become a school-shooter. Then he was expelled from school, lost his mother to pneumonia and became depressed. He had an explosive temper and seemed to get off on antagonizing others. A kid who grew up on the same block said that people were afraid of him and that just about everybody on his part of the street had a run-in with him; he picked fights with other kids [as a child, I did this], stole people's mail [as a child, I did this], threw rocks and vandalized property [as a child, I did this], got called stealing a neighbor's bike [as a child, I did this], got caught peeking into a woman's bedroom [as a child, I did this], and started throwing eggs at his neighbor's car [as a child, I did this].

Then the daughter of a neighbor drove past him as he was waiting for the school bus. Cruz attacked her car, slamming it with his backpack. [as a child, I did this] She called the police, and they stationed an officer at the intersection to make sure he didn't throw anything at cars. At school he started selling knives out of his lunchbox, and posting on Instagram about guns and killing animals.

He was repeatedly suspended from school. The school administration sent out emails to teachers asking them to keep an eye on him. The Broward County Mayor told CNN that Cruz had been receiving treatment at a mental-health clinic for a while, but that he had not been to the clinic for more than a year.

Yesterday, for instance, I said that the 2nd Amendment was an anachronism. Your immediate response was not to ask me "in what way?" or state your reasons for thinking that it remains as relevant today as it was in the late 18th Century. Instead you insult me right off the bat:

Are you suggesting that because I did not wish to remain in that milieu that I am somehow "out of touch?" You drove a truck all your life and so you are somehow more authentic than me?

You're right Finn.

You should have to be 21 to join the military too.

You intentionally ignored my response. You fit so well in the neoliberal fold.

The important thing to realize is that only a rare few of them will hold to principle.

When leaks come out from the Mueller investigation about how it has probed into the Democrats side of this affair, I will take it seriously. Until then it's all partisan bullshit.

Let's protect schools too; of course our taxes will need to go up to pay for all this extra security nationwide. I'll support a tax increase for that...will you?