Facebook Terrorists

[eddiememphis]

https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/18/us/th...led/index.html

Three nuts spouting nonsense on Facebook were arrested, stopping potential attacks.

One of them had a "a .22-caliber hunting rifle and 400 rounds of ammo" and "A school is a weak target.. id be more likely to open fire on a large crowd of people from over 3 miles away.. I'd wanna break a world record for longest confirmed kill ever".

Not going to do that with a .22, son.

This seems bad to me. Not that these nuts were arrested if they made direct threats, but it seems red flaggy and very intrusive.

Is the first amendment dead? Can we be arrested for thought crimes?

I do not like the direction this is headed.

[Gman]

Can we be arrested for thought crimes?

Not if they stay in your head. Declaring to the public that you want to kill people is a whole other ballgame.

[Irving]

If they were talking about picking up dates at the daycare or elementary school, would you feel the same? I feel like it's not a bad thing to set some boundaries on what kind of intentions you can express before there are consequences. It's a slippery slope, but what isn't?

[BuffCyclist]

Man, that guy had 400-rds of .22LR?! That's like a good 30-min at the shooting range. Heck, that's not even a full bulk-pack of ammo from Walmart!

edit: I hate it when the media uses the number of rounds of ammo that a suspect had. That's like saying a truck driver that drove into a crowd of people had 22 gallons of gas in the truck! It's just a useless fear mongering tactic.

[Great-Kazoo]

It's just a useless fear mongering tactic.

But it plays to the anti-gun and soccer mom crowd. If they were to dump 400 rds of 22 in a bowl. It would look like breakfast cereal, that would give the fence sitters something to thing about.

400 is a number some people can't imaging having so many of. A small cereal bowl's worth, not an issue




Now imagine if the social media sites patrolled them looking as vigorously for potential gang member attacks and drug deals, as they do school shooters.

[Gman]

Good point, but I wonder if the gang members/drug dealers use social media much?

[copfish]

Man, that guy had 400-rds of .22LR?! That's like a good 30-min at the shooting range. Heck, that's not even a full bulk-pack of ammo from Walmart!

One of the ladies in church mentioned that and both my wife and one of the other wives started laughing and both said, "my husband has more than that in his go-bag."

[Irving]

Especially with .22, it's important to know that that is the amount it is often sold in.

[BladesNBarrels]

Well, now, what happened to the other 100 rounds that came in that brick of 500?

[BuffCyclist]

One of the ladies in church mentioned that and both my wife and one of the other wives started laughing and both said, "my husband has more than that in his go-bag."

LOL thats exactly my point!

But the question remains, did he buy 4 boxes of CCI Mini Mags or was this a Federal bulk pack. If the later, where are the other 125-150 rounds?!