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The FBI Director needs to resign

nota bene said:
I agree. And I think calling for the Director to resign is an overreaction anyway (not that it's not sadly typical these days; I'm just tired of the first response being "Off with his head!").

The family with whom Cruz was living, who now call him a "monster," say there were no warning signs. Cruz passed the background check to purchase a weapon. Should he have been on a "Don't sell to" list? I wish I understood why the FBI mistake was made.

But this I know: I don't want to live in a Minority Report world in which "proactivity" can be abusive.
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I think, though, that we have unfortunately amassed enough evidence from past school shootings to begin to develop of profile of these shooters, whereby we might be served from enacting a critical pathway decision tree which decides which individuals to involuntarily commit for a brief period of time, long enough to initiate psych evaluations and intervention.
In a nutshell, this should have happened with the Baker Act, but if authorities were trained better and held responsible for turning a blind eye for whatever reason, Cruz would have been ineligible to buy a gun.
Affecting serious change will take far more than the immediate gratification of burning the wicker FBI Director on a stake.
 
tres borrachos said:
So says Florida governor Rick Scott.

Rick Scott's Social Services investigated Cruz in 2016. And did nothing.

The FBI Director needs to resign

Can we expect Governor Rick Scott to call for his own resignation today?
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Of course, not - this is a typical political blame shifting attempt. The sage and wise Floriduh Governor is trying to assert that his local folks dropping the ball over 40 times was perfectly OK because it was the (evil?) FBI that allegedly dropped the ball twice that caused this problem - look it up.

This is not to say that the FBI was right to simply blow off a "see something, say something" warning but that Floriduh had more "red flag" tips presented to them, plenty of local "resources" to respond to those calls and yet made the decision not to charge their "werid kid" with a crime or to demand he submit to a formal mental health evaluation.

Of course, we don't (yet?) know how many calls about the "weird kid" were blown off entirely by those Floriduh (LEO and school) "officials" but we do know that no "red flags" (reasons to deny passing a NICS BGC) were generated after those Floriduh "experts" had over 40 in person visits with him.
 
tres borrachos said:
I love it when someone gets the obvious.

Rick Scott is so knee deep in his own hypocrisy that he can't even see it.
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He can see it just fine - that is why he needs to get into the blame shifting mode. BTW, why would his "see something, say something" source call the FBI other than the fact that the local morons that saw the "weird kid", up close and personal, over 40 times refused to do anything but officially say "yep, he sure is a weird kid"?
 
tres borrachos said:
So says Florida governor Rick Scott.

Rick Scott's Social Services investigated Cruz in 2016. And did nothing.

The FBI Director needs to resign

Can we expect Governor Rick Scott to call for his own resignation today?
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I'm cool with that. Put in Ted Cruz or Try Gowdy. Get some law and order dude in there instead of body hiders.

The FBI is as good as tits on a bull.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
He can see it just fine - that is why he needs to get into the blame shifting mode. BTW, why would his "see something, say something" source call the FBI other than the fact that the local morons that saw the "weird kid", up close and personal, over 40 times refused to do anything but officially say "yep, he sure is a weird kid"?
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Yup, you're following along.

Maybe Rick Scott will resign today.
 
Yeah ... I don't get that demand for the head of Chris Wray, other than as a fake display of the depth of your concern, even though you don't really expect it to happen.
I don't even think it works well as deflection.
 
tres borrachos said:
So says Florida governor Rick Scott.

Rick Scott's Social Services investigated Cruz in 2016. And did nothing.

The FBI Director needs to resign

Can we expect Governor Rick Scott to call for his own resignation today?
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It does show that the FBI is clueless about how to protect us when they have very valid information to work on, although it can't really be blamed on the new guy, Wray. And, you are also quite correct that Florida dropped the ball more times than the FBI did. What upsets me is the activist school kids blaming Trump, the politicians, and the NRA when clearly the FBI and Florida bare a very huge part of the blame for this. If I were a parent I would be suing them, although I don't know if you can sue the FBI, but you can sue Florida. The country needs to wake up regarding this stuff instead of naively thinking that if Cruz couldn't buy an AR-15 then this would have never happened. It would have still happened. Sending the wrong message hurts the problem more than it helps. We need to get people like this off the streets, not try and figure out how to keep guns out of their hands.
 
Moderate Right said:
It does show that the FBI is clueless about how to protect us when they have very valid information to work on, although it can't really be blamed on the new guy, Wray. And, you are also quite correct that Florida dropped the ball more times than the FBI did. What upsets me is the activist school kids blaming Trump, the politicians, and the NRA when clearly the FBI and Florida bare a very huge part of the blame for this. If I were a parent I would be suing them, although I don't know if you can sue the FBI, but you can sue Florida. The country needs to wake up regarding this stuff instead of naively thinking that if Cruz couldn't buy an AR-15 then this would have never happened. It would have still happened. Sending the wrong message hurts the problem more than it helps. We need to get people like this off the streets, not try and figure out how to keep guns out of their hands.
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I wonder how Cruz even advanced in school. From what the mother who took him in said, he was barely functional- very, very immature and possibly mentally handicapped.
 
Winston said:
Wasn't Rick Scott under some political heat recently?
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Scott's history in the health industry has been investigated.
I hope he does run against Sen. Nelson.
He's fully aware that there a quarter million new voters in Florida from Puerto Rico ...
 
The FBI Director has been drinking out of a fire hose since he took this job. Give him a chance to address the issue of the Florida school shooting.
 
Please because this is a pathetic


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Sounds like Scott wants the job.
Why else would you call for the newly appointed head of 30,000 employees.
I could see if he called for the head of the Florida division...but the top guy for not following up on a tip. This is stupid ****.
 
Is Scott a actual Republican or just a liberal republican


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Trump should fire the top 20 leaders of the FBI.

That should make the rest of them think.
 
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