Failure At All Levels

Nasim Najafi Aghdam went to the You Tube Campus one day and shot the place up. She was a Muslim who was angry because You Tube "censored" her videos. Even though she was not a "right-wing extremist." Quite the contrary; as a Muslim, she would not have been a conservative, no matter how leftists would so wish. I only mention her being Muslim because that goes to her way of thinking. Muslims seem to have a tendency toward violence against ANYBODY they don't like, for any reason. But that isn't the subject of this post. Gun control laws, and the "authorities," at all levels FAILED in this case, and ALLOWED this to happen. The girl's own family was alarmed by her actions and warned the local police, to no avail. They did look into it, and questioned her, but decided she was no threat, although she had bought a gun and was practicing at a gun range. Nothing illegal, to be sure, but something to be taken into consideration considering her other actions, which apparently they did not. They should have taken more of an interest, but they did not, and in retrospect, what could they do, since she had no "record," up to that point? She obviously passed a background check when she bought the gun. So much for THAT law. There are way too many cases where "warning signs" were ignored. In Broward County, Florida, there were 69 such "red flags" that were ignored, and 17 (mostly) children lost their lives. We need to take more seriously those "red flags," and maybe we can head off such occurrences. At Ft. Hood, there were also many obvious "red flags," and they were ignored, costing lives. So too, at other places, with predictable results. (CNN)