FBI Director: I don’t think we could have done anything differently to prevent Orlando massacre

FBI Director James Comey said today that he doesn’t believe they could have done anything differently in their work to prevent the Orlando massacre:

I have an idea. If the guy is on a watch list and he buys a couple of guns, maybe he’s worth actually watching for a while after this. Someone surveilling him after he bought his guns would have seen him take his guns to the gay bar and could have possibly minimized or completely prevented this from happening.

Yes, I’m sure it’s not that simple. But we do know the FBI is already alerted during the background check process when someone purchases guns that are on the watch list.

Just an idea.


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