"The FBI knew in advance the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians. The FBI knew in advance the Garland, Texas, shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi). The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan); and now the FBI knew in advance of Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa."
Sure, they knew in advance. So did a lot of other people who had interacted with those crazed killers. But nobody could do anything about them until after they killed.
Think this through. They were trying to take his firearms, because there was no process by which they could take him and put him in a psych hospital for evaluation and, if found necessary, treatment and/or long-term commitment. The problem with what we currently call "red flag laws" is that they focus on taking guns, and leaving the purportedly dangerous crazy person free.
Obviously when the person really is dangerously crazy, it's the person that needs to be separated from free society, not a particular category of inanimate object, which is just one of many categories that a violently inclined crazy person can use to kill or maim. If they'd had a process to take him they could have put him under surveillance and caught him off-guard to take him into custody. Then he'd still be alive, and if (as I have noted) the infernal privacy laws were gutted, he would only be kept in a secure psych facility if that was actually warranted.
Maybe you should open your eyes:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2021/03/23/here-we-go-fbi-knew-boulder-colorado-suspect-identity-prior-to-shooting/
"The FBI knew in advance the Pulse Nightclub shooter (Omar Mateen) and were tipped off by the local sheriff. The FBI knew in advance the San Bernardino Terrorists (Tashfeen Malik). The FBI knew in advance the Boston Marathon Bombers (the Tsarnaev brothers) tipped off by Russians. The FBI knew in advance the Garland, Texas, shooters (Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi). The FBI knew in advance of the Parkland High School shooter (Nikolas Cruz). The FBI knew in advance of the Fort Hood shooter (Nidal Hasan); and now the FBI knew in advance of Ahmad al-Aliwi Alissa."
Sure, they knew in advance. So did a lot of other people who had interacted with those crazed killers. But nobody could do anything about them until after they killed.
Keep telling yourself that they don't intervene ahead of time if they want to:
https://thenewamerican.com/law-abiding-gun-owner-killed-during-red-flag-confiscation-raid/
Think this through. They were trying to take his firearms, because there was no process by which they could take him and put him in a psych hospital for evaluation and, if found necessary, treatment and/or long-term commitment. The problem with what we currently call "red flag laws" is that they focus on taking guns, and leaving the purportedly dangerous crazy person free.
Obviously when the person really is dangerously crazy, it's the person that needs to be separated from free society, not a particular category of inanimate object, which is just one of many categories that a violently inclined crazy person can use to kill or maim. If they'd had a process to take him they could have put him under surveillance and caught him off-guard to take him into custody. Then he'd still be alive, and if (as I have noted) the infernal privacy laws were gutted, he would only be kept in a secure psych facility if that was actually warranted.