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If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on TwitterGovernment officials do not have the hardware or the authority to collect and analyze the artillery receipts, health records and other data that could have signaled a threat was headed toward an AMC movie theater in Aurora, Colo., last week, former federal officials said.
Nor do Americans have the stomach to grant the government such intrusive powers, they added.
Experts point to a review of the FBI’s handling of the 2009 Fort Hood, Texas massacre, which was released hours before the Colorado shooting. The report revealed the FBI did not have the technology to perform the kind of analytics that could have raised red flags about Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, the psychiatrist charged with murdering 13 soldiers and civilians at the Army’s most populous military base in November 2009.
Both Hasan and the suspected theater shooter, James Holmes, a neuroscience graduate student, were trained to save lives, not take them. On the surface, they seemed unlikely criminals.
There were signs of abnormal behavior in Holmes before he allegedly murdered at least 12 moviegoers. CNN reported that Holmes bought online more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition, a Blackhawk urban assault vest, a Blackhawk Omega Elite triple pistol magazine, a Blackhawk Omega Elite M16 magazine pouch and a Blackhawk Be-Wharned silver knife.
The enticing power of “hindsight” is out in force on this one.
Read an article on Fox today by some half cocked psychiatrists insisting they can pinpoint psycopaths by their twitter accounts and sentence structure.
Their “archtype” for a psycopath was someone who swears a lot, talks in past tense, and throws a lot of indiscernible filler words into their sentences – basically, an Irish dock worker.
Fucking idiots.
you need to have at least 1000 rounds in reserve for every caliber in your house, plus enough to take to the range for practice. Ask the Swiss.