Biden Calls for Gun Control, Better He Should Watch the FBI

Earlier this week President Joe Biden used Thursday's shooting at Perry High School in Iowa to call for more gun control.

But instead of bringing up issues that were unrelated to the shooting, the president should seek answers from his own FBI.

Biden spoke at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, Monday and referenced a shooting in which Dylan Butler, 17, shot and killed Ahmir Jolliff, 11, and injured four other students and three staff members at the Iowa school.

His answer to the violence was more gun control.

"We have to ban assault weapons," he said. "I did it once before, and I'm going to come back again and do it. Ban high-capacity magazines. We have to pass a universal background checks."

But none of these would have prevented the violence.

Butler used a pump-action shotgun and a small caliber handgun, both of which would have been permitted under either an "assault weapon" ban or a "high capacity" magazine ban.

Also, at age 17, he was too young to have purchased weapons on his own. He must have either stolen them, bought them on the street, or lifted them from his parents. So a universal background check wouldn't have changed a thing.

One thing could have prevented the shooting: Due diligence by law enforcement.

Butler was referred to the FBI as a possible problem in November, according to the Daily Mail and Libs of TikTok.

"The FBI was warned about the trans Iowa shooter before the shooting. He had been posting disturbing messages on Discord and someone reported it to the FBI. The FBI never responded," Libs of TikTok reported.

"As I reported, 2 years ago he was already posting alarming messages about being a school shooter."

If you recall hearing something similar to this earlier, your memory is intact.

Army reservist Robert Card opened fire in a Maine bowling alley and bar in late October, killing 18 people. Six weeks before that the Army asked authorities to check on him, saying they had concerns that he would "snap and commit a mass shooting."

Then there was the time in April 2021, when Brandon Scott Hole, 19, killed eight people at an Indianapolis FedEx facility. Authorities were alerted to him the year before by his own mother, who was worried he would commit "suicide by cop."

He was questioned at that time and later released, after the FBI determined no crime had been committed.

Then there was the modern-day Feb. 14 "St. Valentine's Day Massacre," when Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018, killing 17 and injuring 17 others.

Cruz's behavior was reported by two students to the principal, who dismissed it. More troubling, from 2008 to 2017, at least 45 reports of his behavior or the behavior of family members were filed with the Broward County Sheriff's Office.

The FBI received several warnings as well, the latest 40 days before the shooting. "The caller provided information about Cruz's gun ownership, desire to kill people, erratic behavior, and disturbing social media posts, as well as the potential of him conducting a school shooting," the FBI said.

"The mission of the FBI is to protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States," according to the bureau's website. It adds that "The vision is to stay ahead of the threat." [Emphasis added]

Meanwhile, the FBI has been investigating concerned parents who speak out at school board meetings, and pro-life activists who pray at abortion clinics.

And most recently we've learned that the agency is allegedly using its assets to promote crime that can later be prosecuted.

Tucker Carlson released his interview with Rep. Clay Higgins Saturday. The Louisiana Republican revealed that "well over 200" FBI assets were used in the Jan. 6 Capitol Hill riot, "including some dressed as Trump supporters inside the building leading people to key locations in the Capitol," independent journalist and podcaster Julie Kelly reported.

She added, "Higgins is a former LEO and veteran — no chance he's making this up."

For that reason GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy celebrated Jan. 6 this year as "Happy Entrapment Day."

People don't generally tell others that they're going to shoot up a school, a bowling alley, or a former workplace. They don't normally say they're thinking of indiscriminately killing other people.

If they say they're going to do that, we should take them at their word.

The FBI repeatedly tells us, "If you see something, say something." But it seems that each time we do, little happens.

Maybe they might want to concentrate more on their mission statement and "stay ahead of the threat."

Michael Dorstewitz is a retired lawyer and has been a frequent contributor to Newsmax. He is also a former U.S. Merchant Marine officer and an enthusiastic Second Amendment supporter. Read Michael Dorstewitz's Reports — More Here.