July 4 parade shooting suspect slipped past "red flag" safeg

[jdege]

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/july-4-parade-shooting-suspect-slipped-past-illinois-red-flag-safeguards-2022-07-06/
July 4 parade shooting suspect slipped past Illinois "red flag" safeguards

The man accused of opening fire on a July Fourth parade near Chicago was charged on Tuesday with seven counts of murder, as police revealed they had reported him as posing a "clear and present danger" after alleged threats to his family in 2019.

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Covelli said Crimo had two previous encounters with law enforcement - an April 2019 emergency-911 call reporting that he had attempted suicide and another in September of that year regarding alleged threats "to kill everyone" that he had directed at family members.

Police responding to the second incident seized a collection of 16 knives, a dagger and a sword amassed by Crimo in his home, though no arrest was made as authorities at the time lacked probable cause to take him into custody, Covelli said.

"There were no complaints that were signed by any of the victims," Covelli said.

But a state "red flag" system, designed to allow police to seek a court order to seize weapons from people who are deemed to present a danger to themselves or others, appeared to have broken down.

Or, perhaps, it's working as designed, and we should abandon the pretence that it's intended to protect society from raging loons...

[Bearcatrp]

Am surprised his background was on the news. Normally they hide the facts when it slaps them in the face. Laws were not enforced. If they were, he would not have been able to legally buy a firearm.

[Holland&Holland]

We need more laws. Maybe we should make murder illegal?

[hard h2o]

The left has and is normalizing aberrant behavior. If someone is acting out of the norm or acting out against society we must accept them and try to learn what society did to them for them to act that way. We can't call them out and do something. We have to wait until they do something to warrant intervention.

Unless you are a right wing white male. Then you can be called out.

[BigBlue]

"But if we just had one more law it would fix everything..."

[Sorcerer]

The “don’t want to label” crowds lack of for sight has created this continuous out come. Don’t want to saddle little Johnny with a “title”. Little Johnny never learns what society expects from him.

[yukonjasper]

Not sure it's "slipping " when multiple layers of the watchdog system set up by the gun control crowd, fail to do their jobs and shirk their duties. It happens over and over. Hard to believe that they don't connect the dots on the responsibility to tag obviously imbalanced individuals. All of this happening in one of the strongholds of gun control......repeated in all jurisdictions that claim they are serious about gun control. Enforce the laws you already have and prove to me they make a difference before you dump a bunch more garbage at me to make my life more complicated.