FBI Dropped The Ball On Parkland Shooter

By Tom Knighton

When you’re talking about mass shooters, there are usually some red flags that pop up. After the fact, we tend to talk about them and try and figure out how atrocities like these can be avoided. Usually, though, few of those red flags ever seem to get reported to law enforcement.

In the case of Parkland, Florida, however, it appears the shooter bragged about his plans in a YouTube comment.

BuzzFeed reports that a YouTube user named Ben Bennight tipped off the FBI about a comment left by [the same name of the shooter] on one of his videos that read, “I’m going to be a professional school shooter.”

Bennight immediately contacted the FBI and spoke with agents the following day.

“They came to my office the next morning and asked me if I knew anything about the person. I didn’t. They took a copy of the screenshot and that was the last I heard from them,” he told BuzzFeed.

After the shooting, Bennight reports getting a voicemail message from someone claiming to be with the FBI wanting to follow up.

Too bad 17 kids had to die first, right?

I get that the FBI agents may well be swamped. They …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms