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Benjamin's Newsletter's avatar

It wouldn't surprise me at all to find out that the FBI let it happen intentionally. They got the 4th of July narrative they wanted.

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Dave's avatar

Take all father figures out of a young mans life, ban or obfuscate the words of Christ, allow him to play violent video games year after year, slowly isolate him from reality, feed a steady diet of extreme ideological web content littered with dehumanizing language, load him up with both "legal" prescriptions and allow highly potent "legalized" THC...and the world is shocked when they do this.

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J in StL's avatar

"Will the FBI begin taking the violent Left seriously at some point?"

HA-HA-HA-HA! You funny! The FBI always takes their agents provocateur seriously.

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AmericanCardigan's avatar

I'm still pissed from yesterday. We had waited 3 years for our local parade (nearby community), had family and friends coming over and was looking for a renewal of times gone past. Then the news hit. An hour later our Mayor cancelled the parade, fireworks, etc... other local communities did too. Soon I realized it was because our local law enforcement officers were needed in nearby Highland Park. I was pissed. I was pissed at this kid, I was pissed at the day destroyed before me.

Then I realized I was being self-centered and selfish. We mourn for those lost, their families, and the injured. I won't let these punks take away our and my peace of mind.

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perle's avatar

To discourage these incidents the consequences must be made as disagreeable as possible. Now that the Democrats have created our Washington gulag for political prisoners, why not have this guy be put there and disappear from public view, no trial, no habeas corpus, just lock him up in solitary in a vermin-infested cell with bad food, no medicine, legal counsel or possibility of communicating with the outside world.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Known to LE:

1) Possible suicide threat/attempt?

2) Possible threat with knife?

Not on any red flag list.

Ann Coulter: One gun control law I think we could all get behind is no guns for anyone with a face or neck tattoo.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

The Highland Park police say they reported the knife incident to IL St police and confiscated 16 knives. No signed complaint, no action taken. No red flag list.

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Shy Boy's avatar

Fake. Fake fake fake. So incredibly obviously fake! And you're just playing along? C'mon, man.

http://mileswmathis.com/new1.pdf

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Chuck's avatar

Check out what Alex Berenson has been writing about lately (alexberenson.substack.com). He has been pointing out that a lot of these shooters have been prone to heavy marijuana/THC usage, which leads to paranoia and schizophrenic thinking. The list includes most of the very latest shooters, including Buffalo, Highland Park, etc.

The marijuana/THC these kids are using nowadays is multiple times more powerful than what was common in the '60s and '70s and '80s. It is changing their brain chemistry.

May God have mercy on us!

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Mark Wauck's avatar

This is true. In fact there was a recent study from Denmark pointing to what you could call sudden onset psychosis among THC users. Paranoid delusions, etc. Of course Pritzker in IL legalized it and is heavily invested in it.

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ccdirtdawgs's avatar

Perhaps parents are to blame in some of these instances, perhaps not. My memory is still pretty vivid a decade+ later of my stepson's struggles in public school. They dx'd him ADD & anytime his behavior wasn't exactly to the school's liking, the cry arose to raise his med dose! Poor boy cd hardly keep his eyes open, much less function. We got him in a private self-paced Christian academy for high school. He thrived & graduated 2 yrs ahead of his public school class, w/out meds.

Things have escalated since. A neighbor somehow wound up in federal court for refusing to put his active young son on ADD meds. They threatened to take the boy away or force the parents to drug him. Parents won, but the boy is being home schooled.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Always seems boys are targeted.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

A seventh person has died--victim of Leftist violence.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

Sounds like this will get memory holed soon.

In the Daily Mail they were trying to make him into a Trump Supporter, since he went to a Trump Rally and did something with a Trump Flag.

What a coincidence that Leftist Mass Shootings always get memory holed. Las Vegas was another one that has a lot of open threads.

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GT64OZ's avatar

Don't forget Waukesha

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Mark Wauck's avatar

"Sounds like this will get memory holed soon."

I'm gonna bet on that.

I'm vacuuming, getting ready for guests. Guess what I was just thinking about, before I took this break? Yep:

"Las Vegas was another one that has a lot of open threads."

Why did the authorities just seem to lose interest?

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Dutzie's avatar

“ I'm vacuuming,” === 💞💞 😉

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Mark Wauck's avatar

LOL. We have a division of duties. My wife has bad knees.

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Storms69's avatar

As long as the violent left is bolstering the left’s talking points, no action will be taken by the bureaucratic state.

The age cohort to which the shooter belongs has been heavily medicated from an early age. My kids are a little younger than this monster, but I can tell you that so many of their classmates were diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, being on the autism spectrum, having anxiety and/or being depressed. I don’t have any statistics on this - it’s purely observational on my part. I just feel that the whole 25 and younger age group is being poisoned, literally and figuratively, by doctors and their Big Pharma overlords, failing schools, lack of parenting, unsocial media and the attempt of the MSM and foundational institutions to normalize deviant and just plain odd behaviors (and I lump copious tattooing, body piercings and having blue, pink and/or purple hair in this category). Every one of these mass shootings is followed by the same hand wringing over guns. It’s not the guns that we should be focusing on. It’s what is making these boys crazy that we should be focusing on. What is making them crazy is a pervasive dismantling of societal norms and traditional mores by the left combined with the poisons I listed above.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

"What is making them crazy is a pervasive dismantling of societal norms and traditional mores by the left combined with the poisons I listed above."

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Candis's avatar

If it's like the 1970's they won't take them seriously until they start blowing up government buildings and robbing banks. As long as they are just taking out the peasants, it's no big deal.

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elizabeth nickson's avatar

Of course he was known. He was created.

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elizabeth nickson's avatar

Am beginning to think these things are false flags. It is the only explanation I can find and I am well moored to reality and spent most of my professional life working at the top of the journo tree. Not paranoid therefore, and fact based. However, how easy would it be to groom these idiots, like they did Oswald, and station some vile sharpshooter agent on a roof to cause maximum damage? It is all too staged, too obvious. We are being pwned.

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Shy Boy's avatar

There's such a long history of these. This one's well over the top.

http://mileswmathis.com/new1.pdf

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