Some have claimed that the constant push to arm law-abiding Americans following the massacre in Uvalde (TX) is making things more complex than the guns used.
That’s become clear after an unearthed video of the shooter raised every red flag imaginable, showing Salvador Ramos holding a bag of dead cats. If this video was otherwise seen by authorities prior, it’s inexcusable that it wasn’t acted on.
According to the New York Post, this report was created.
A disturbing new video taken by The Post captures Salvador Ramos, a demented Robb Elementary School gunman, smiling as he holds a bag full of dead and bloodied cats.
The deranged 18-year-old gunman is seen smiling in the undated footage while sitting in the passenger seat of a pal’s car — holding up a clear plastic bag with at least two bloodied cats visible inside.
I’m not going to post the video or pictures in this article for obvious reasons. They are as bad as you’d think and represent stark evidence of just how mentally unwell this shooter was. No one who ruthlessly kills pets for no other reason than to laugh about it is right in the head, and there’s a long history of mass killers, including serial killers, starting their escapades by killing domesticated animals.
Given the shooter’s age and the timing of the shooting to his 18th birthday, the video in question certainly was taken while he was still a minor, and for more context, according to the Post, none of this was a secret.
Ramos also participated in domestic violence, which he uploaded online, despite the horrors. Ramos also allegedly shot others with a BB gun and started fighting for no reason. His mother reportedly suffered from a drug addiction.
Are there more red flags that authorities would like to see before they take action? In this instance, he was a minor. He was not removed from the house. In fact, I can’t find any evidence CPS ever even attempted to intervene. It appears that the shooter moved to his grandmother in response to a dispute with his mother.
It’s insane that the conversation is now about banning 9mm ammunition rather than about issues that could have actually stopped this shooting. Heck, it’s not just insane, it’s infuriating. It’s tempting to pursue long-held political goals, which would not prevent mass shootings, rather than worrying about the real problems facing the nation. Schools obviously need better security, and if we can give them hundreds of billions of mostly unspent cash for COVID, I’m pretty sure we can afford to install some magnetic doors.
Beyond that, it is important to have a serious discussion about the inaction towards clearly mentally ill persons. Ramos must have been taken into custody many times. If the authorities had taken the time to investigate his circumstances and made the necessary arrests, Ramos would have known that he needed to be expelled from his present situation. That alone would have done more to stop him from going on a rampage than taking Joe Bob’s AR-15 in Iowa.
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