
Every mediatized mass shooting/terror attack since the Boston Bombings in 2013 has immediately been followed with a 'Strong' messaging campaign. What is up with that?
The man who gunned down nine people in Dayton, Ohio, two years ago had fantasized about mass shootings, serial killings and murder-suicide for at least a decade before carrying out the Aug. 4, 2019, attack, the FBI said Monday as it announced
the conclusion of its investigation.
Shooter Connor Betts didn't share specific details with friends or family members about his fantasies, underscoring the importance of people being attuned to subtle changes in an individual, the agency said.
A phenomenon known as
"bystander fatigue" may account why no one reported Betts to authorities before the shooting, according to a two-page FBI summary of its report.
That term is used "to describe the passivity, inaction, or inattention to concerning behaviors observed by individuals who have a close, interpersonal relationship to a person of concern due to their prolonged exposure to the person's erratic or otherwise troubling behavior over time," the FBI said.
Betts, 24,
was killed by police half a minute after he opened fire in Dayton's crowded Oregon District entertainment area. Armed with an AR-15 style rifle and an extended ammunition magazine,
Betts killed nine people, including his sister, and wounded dozens more.
Comment: So there you have it; basically zero investigation. Betts was indeed
filmed in the area an hour before the shooting, dressed casually and acting completely normally, but he's seen exiting the venue just prior to the shooting, leaving his sister and friend there.
Then a MASKED gunman wearing tactical gear turns up
and fires at people on the open street. The gunman never made it into the bar he's
seen turning towards just before police fire 30 bullets into him.
Was that
actually Connor Betts? How did he manage to shoot over 30 people, most running away from him? How were police onto this gunman "within 30 seconds" - and from both in front of him and behind him? Why did police
discharge 65 bullets in total? And why were
two of the victims shot by police? Was there a shoot-out directly between police and the gunman? How then did the amateur 24-year-old gunman have time/space to discharge 41 bullets in less than half a minute - with a hit rate of almost
100%?
Comment: Booster shots won't save Christmas, and Santa Claus isn't real.