Ex-FBI official questions key decision by shooter’s father

Former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe discusses the timeline leading up to the Highland Park shooting and how the shooter obtained weapons. #CNN #News

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  1. WTF!!??………his father signs off on the gun, after that psycho-son of his threatens everyone with knives? That fool of a father was running for mayor,..at one point, wasn’t he? Lock them all up and throw away the key!!!

    1. @Jen McVay And running as a GOP at that, loved guns and hated the Dems what a fine murican family

  2. So a suicidal kid that also said he wanted to kill his whole family …… were visited by the police twice and had weapons confiscated , can go and buy a semi automatic rifle as long as he had his Dad co sign the application ? Yeah….. nothing wrong with gun laws at all .

    1. Americans deserve this. Nobody can read or comprehend what the second amendment even says. I’m Canadian, y’all are sad. How many of your precious, slave owning “founding fathers” envisioned a kid being able to buy a military rifle with an extended clip in the future but not be old or trustworthy enpugh to rent a car? The words ‘militia’ and ‘regulated’ are in there though. Again, I’m a 39 year old Canadian truck driver. You all shpuld be ashamed.

  3. So shocking to learn that the father collected those knives the same day they were taken away. Disgusting

  4. How is it possible for someone to legally buy guns then claim insanity for defense? That literally proves how easy it is for guns to get into the wrong hands

    1. @M.J. that’s why an actual professional psych exam should be required. Those things are over 500 questions. Take about two weeks for a trained professional to pick out inconsistencies then they follow up with another barrage of secondary questions to clarify anything that doesn’t make sense or could be a sign of danger. It’s easy to fake a yes or no one question exam but doing an actual one takes about 2-3 hours. Getting a gun should be a month long process atleast if just getting a vehicle license takes about 6 months.

  5. The system is broken. The Buffalo shooter was known to police, this guy was known to police and yet they both got firearms.

  6. The family statement forgets to mention “We are idiots and blood in on our hands.”

    1. Blood is also on the hands of the bureaucrat that gave this individual the permit to purchase those weapons.

    2. Absolutely and parents should have some consequences as well, I don’t know what but as a former Mayor (or wanna be mayor) he should know better

  7. Father should be held accountable, if he “vouched/signed” for his son, under the age of 21, knowing that he had these past problems…Father just as responsible for these deaths ๐Ÿ˜ข
    What good was the Red Flag Law, good for.
    Another note, father was not “dumb”, he once ran for mayor of this city…

    1. You are bloody hilarious…. His father wasn’t dumb he ran for Mayor?!!!! MTG, Boebert to name just two…… ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

    2. @Fat Man
      No but I saw Trump…… Woman, Man, Person, Camera, TV…… Hey I passed a test to prove I didn’t have Alzheimer’s, I’m a stable genius ๐Ÿคฆ

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  8. The father should be held accountable for the fact he knew of his son’s mental state, then went and sponsored his son to get a gun. What a family

    1. And exactly WTF were the police doing? They “temporarily” took his weapons away?!
      Did anyone get this boy mental healthcare?! And as an aside, is the father mentally stable?! Doesn’t sound like it…

  9. Yes the father should be investigated and possibility charged with crimes. At minimum he is culpable and negligent.

    1. @Randy Church adults co-sign for loans for other adults all the time.
      what happens in primary default? come on, THINK …

    2. @Warren Goss So if you want an RPG you should get to keep those too? Should I be able to mount a 20mm automated CIWS in my front yard to take care of any pesky neighborhood problem?

  10. The father is nuts to help his homicidal son obtain a firearm. What was he thinking? Clearly he wasnโ€™t thinking clearly.

    1. I’m not a doctor, but I don’t think the father is a mental giant. I think he might have issues of his own. I would be interested in hearing from the Mother.

  11. Isn’t the father culpable? He told law enforcement the knives and sword were his. So, he lied.

  12. The father ran for the mayor’s office a few years ago. Definitely an upstanding individual that should serve in that capacity! You can’t make this $hit up.

    1. @Kicky so you are giving up your rights, I am fine with that. Keep giving up your rights, it makes you a perfect Democrat.

    2. @tom martinez
      Those ten-year-old kids in Uvalde were not old enough to vote, yet you expect them to die for your freedom to own something that denied them the right to reach adulthood.

  13. If the father did vouch for him then the father should be held accountable, for some part of this debacle.

    1. Well said. Both parents should be locked up. The father signed card, probably paid for the gun. The mother gave a mass murderer the get away car. Insane.

  14. The parents in the Oxford, MI case are being charged, perhaps that is possible here as well. Parents have to be more careful about how they raise their children and what privileges they may earn.

    1. What?! As a foetus dependent on a womanโ€™s body to survive, the special being has full rights, but once it hits the light of day and the cord is cut, thatโ€™s it.
      Childcare? We are not commies!!
      Healthcare?! We are not a socialist state!
      Quality education?! Not needed! Pull yourself up by your own bootstraps!
      Help parents to have the time and environment or build a system that invests in younger generations and you will see the changes you want.
      And the gunsโ€ฆdo you really need so many weapons of war?

    2. @Michael Bray wtf, Michael. You are waaaayyyyy off the deep end here. Get a grip and chill. Just vote the people out that you disagree with.

    3. @no face no case Thanks for the link. Now I have a better understanding of why our younger generation is so f-ed up violent.

  15. The people who made the law that allowed the father to sign a document allowing his son to get guns should be held accountable. It was they who put the power in the father’s hands.
    Then, the people who elected those who made that law should hold themselves accountable.
    But everyone will shift blame because America prefers guns to lives.

  16. “Therefore to him that knoweth to do good and doeth it not, to him it is sin.” That father made himself an accessory to his son’s crimes. He knew his son was not mentally stable. Even so, he co-signed for his son to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Hold him accountable!

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