Peter Puck wrote:
I would not go that far. Just explains what I have been wasting my time reading off and on when here.
Feel free to point out any specific inaccuracies you see either on the board or via PM. I enjoy learning.
Peter Puck wrote:
Let's see, you have the FBI receiving a report about a guy threatening to shoot up a school. They work with the locals to press charges (just like what apparently happened here with some kid who made comments online after this). If the press charges where where imprisonment is more than a year, that shows up in the b/g check and stops a purchase in FLA. Or, the FBI does a modicum of investigating, they find he was, apparently, seeking treatment from a mental health facility, abusing animals, making other wacked out statements and he has issues at the school, they work with the locals to seek a protective order to keep him away from the schools. That shows up in the b/g check and stops the purchase.
They did investigate, and they said they couldn't identify the owner of the account (Leaving aside for a moment whether an account in your name is enough to presume it is actually "you"):
Peter Puck's Link wrote:
At a press conference Thursday morning, the FBI confirmed that it had received and looked into a tip about the "professional school shooter" comment on Bennight's YouTube channel, but could not uncover any details from the account.
"No other information was included in the comment, which would indicate a time, location, or true identity of the person who made the comment," special agent Robert Lasky told reporters. "The FBI conducted database reviews, checks, but was unable to further identify the person who made the comment."
In reality, nothing really
happened that should have shown up on a background check but did not, instead you're saying the FBI should have investigated and attempted to prosecute the user of that YouTube account for that comment—Using warrantless NSA prism-type stuff I'm guessing

—and if it was indeed belonging to the shooter, he then would been disqualified if the act was felonious, or if the school would have gotten protective order against him. Of course you're right the downstream effect of disqualification during a background check would have happened, given those things, but this is far from the FBI "botch" you're painting it as.
That doesn't sound a whole lot like "more than enough". Sounds instead like a lot of things needed to happen, and in the right order, in order for this to show up on the guy's background check.