02-20-2018, 01:02 PM
(02-20-2018, 10:02 AM)Belsnickel Wrote: The narrative has been on the FBI, and there is a reason for that I won't expand on here. But local police (because they were aware of his issues), Social Services, and the mental health professional(s) he was seeing all share a larger portion of the blame for dropping the ball than the FBI does.
Very good point. The people all had actual interactions with him and Social Services even deemed him 'low risk'.
There's no doubt that the FBI - by their own admission - botched the process and relaying of information, but there were countless opportunities for others in positions of power to take action long before that.
Those who take it a step farther and blame the Mueller/Russia investigation are really grasping for straws. There are multitudes of ongoing investigations that are always going on in the FBI, which require manpower...so it's curious when people single out the Special Counsel investigation as the primary factor in the FBI's failure in this shooting. Partisanship at it's worst and why I generally hate politics.
My wife's day job is working in school administration, so the issue of school/child safety gets talked about a lot in our house. The fact that the real focus of every conversation about this topic isn't on reasonable steps we can take to make it more difficult for these tragedies to happen, is disappointing as hell.
