This story disturbed me.
Abell added that they thought the man was “very suspicious,” so they called the local FBI office in West Palm Beach and reported the incident. But they didn’t have the man’s name, since no sale was made, and the only surveillance footage they had was grainy.
So the gun dealer did not give the FBI the name of the guy who a few weeks later became the Orlando shooter. To me, that does not excuse the FBI. If you are called by a gun dealer, there ought to be procedures in place to make the issue a priority. And there ought to have been a way to go back and look at everyone else in the area who had been reported in recent years.
This guy says that the FBI did its job.
I disagree. I admit that it probably is hard to prevent a lot of killings. But this is one incident that was eminently preventable. If the FBI does not think it needs to change, that is wrong.
There were not just dots to be connected here. There were gigantic arrows pointing to the shooter, and the FBI missed those.
My $.02
