The more I think about it, I doubt these guys were planning a mass shootings. Most likely they bought the guns, because like everybody else in that hobby, have penis deficiency, and someone who either had a grudge or was made nervous by them having the guns, gave an anonymous tip of a planned mass shootings just to make sure the cops acted promptly.
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thereâs a deadly floating decimal pointâŚ
Some of those that work forces are the same that burn crosses.
Same.
Someone wanted these guys arrested and/or deported, so they called in a tip about a âmass shootingâ, which would make them a priority to the cops.
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Does seem quite disconcerting that if someone posts a random tweet thatâs perceived as a threat to the President, the feds are knocking at their door within hours.
Or that weâve got whole teams of police across the country dedicated to pretending to be underaged children online to see if anyone bites at the bait.
But somehow thereâs a whole subculture buried in the intertubes where people get radicalized, meet and trade stories with like-minded individuals, and somehow that goes nowhere.
Doesnât seem like it would be that tough to set up things similar to the operations to catch potential child predators and focus on extremism and gun violence.
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Like that never happened under any previous president? Try again, Trumper.
Richmond Police Chief Gerald M. Smith stated during a press conference that an anonymous person called to alert the police that they had overheard people discussing a plan to open fire at an Independence Day event at Dogwood Dell Amphitheater in the city.
Wait a minute! Havenât the NRA, gun nuts, and right wingers been continually lecturing us about how the only thing that can stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun? Well, it looks a a good guy with a phone works, too.
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Well yes, but like Uvalde proved, cops donât like assignments where they are likely to get shot. Better to cat fish some idjet and charge him with being a child predator. Who knows how those 4chan nutters will react, they may even bobby-trap their houses, better let them be.
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No immigrants have ever entered the US illegally under any GOP presidents!!! Itâs true!!! DO YOUR RESEARCH, Antifa muncher!!!
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This is a police photo of the weapons, ammo and magazines the knuckleheads planned on using.
Looks like a something issued to the military or The Punisher from Marvel Comics.
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He returned his children, excepting Tiffany, to their Mothers?
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Not a chica looking for revenge on her ex-hombre?
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Reminds me of the time NYT reported the doctor w/ ebola went to the hospital only after he had a 103 degree fever. Making it seem remarkably reckless. In fact, the correct number was 100.3 .
Sloppy!
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Itâs not that simple. First of all, because millions of 15 to 25 year old males shoot the shit and brag with each other on game chat boards and social media bubbles every minute of every day. Game companies and social media companies â even the big ones like Blizzard and Facebook â have small human staff. Nowhere near enough to monitor every conversation. Instead they use algorithms to catch abusive behavior to flag for suspensions and thatâs about it.
Theyâre not going to use algorithmic word detection to automatically send notices to police departments or the FBI. There would cause many false hits resulting in lawsuits, and even worse liability repercussions if one mass shooter slipped through.
What can be done on that front, at least with social media, is Congress passing laws to severely limit the use of personal data by these companies, which is used to push like-minded people into closed information bubbles. Laws could also put restrictions on algorithms that generate âengagementâ by pushing articles and posts that generate hatred and fear. Facebook is still doing that, even after it was brought to everyoneâs attention by that FB executive who left the company.
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Per NBC News, a police spokesperson said Alvarado-Dubon and Balacarcel were from Guatemala and were not in the country legally.
Did they have âbanana magazines?â
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I have/had a friend who was upset with the idea of having to go through hoops to sell a private weapon. Never made sense to me. You have to register a car sale between parties, why not a weapon?
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I get your point.
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See my last post. These social media and game companies have very small staff compared to the number of users on the systems. Facebook has something like 60,000 employees, many of them tech workers. Not so many in customer support. Meanwhile they have 240 million users in the US alone (there are more in India).
So there is no way to monitor content manually. It has to be done algorithmically and algorithms screw up sometimes.
If it screws up and sends the FBI to a kidâs door who actually said nothing wrong and wasnât a potential shooter? Lawsuits ensue. If the algorithm is promoted as being able to catch a shooter and fails to do that when one slips through the net? Big lawsuits ensue. So the companies arenât going to get into this.
Home defense weapons. It is obvious.
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Here in GA they screamed bloody murder when someone suggested that private sales had to be completed in a police station to allow identification and background check. Because it would inconvenience parents transferring guns to their children. So basically in GA you can legally sell your gun to any criminal or nutter.
In the state of Georgia, there are no specific laws requiring a background check to buy or sell a firearm in a private transaction between two individuals.
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