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chowder66

(9,073 posts)
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 04:08 PM Feb 2023

Police: 'High chance' of Hollywood mass shooting prevented

LOS ANGELES -- A “high chance” of a mass shooting in Hollywood was thwarted Tuesday by police seizing a cache of guns and ammunition in a high-rise apartment where several rifles were pointed toward a nearby park, the Los Angeles Police Department said.

Braxton Johnson was taken into custody Tuesday after he allegedly made violent threats involving weapons to security staff at the apartment building and people outside, the agency said the following day.

A search of Johnson's apartment turned up two assault rifles and high-capacity ammunition magazines, all of which are illegal in California, as well as three handguns, a sniper rifle, a shotgun and more than 1,000 rounds of ammunition.

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https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/assault-rifles-ammunition-seized-hollywood-high-rise-96855089


This was down the street from where I live. I'm grateful to the people who reported him and to the police for being proactive.

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Police: 'High chance' of Hollywood mass shooting prevented (Original Post) chowder66 Feb 2023 OP
Okay, then. Let's see some Federal terrorism charges, or this whole thing is just dinner theater. Aristus Feb 2023 #1
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Feb 2023 #2
So Am I! Grateful.. TY! Cha Feb 2023 #3
+1 chowder66 Feb 2023 #7
OMG! What a shock for you. wnylib Feb 2023 #4
Not a shock but it definitely upped the creep factor. chowder66 Feb 2023 #6
Saw this Rebl2 Feb 2023 #5
I'm sick of there being so many guns available and lame excuses people use to justify having them. chowder66 Feb 2023 #8
this is what i wonder. barbtries Feb 2023 #9
Excellent point. calimary Feb 2023 #10

Response to chowder66 (Original post)

barbtries

(28,799 posts)
9. this is what i wonder.
Thu Feb 2, 2023, 06:23 PM
Feb 2023

what's to stop agencies from collecting data about the hoarding of weapons and ammunition? When it gets to the point that one very reasonable conclusion would be that the person doing this is probably a danger, then a warrant could be drawn up, weapons seized, lives saved.

they fucking know everything we buy, what we're shopping for, where we are at - why not use data to save people?

I'm thinking especially about the Las Vegas shooter. He was never going to run out of guns and ammo.

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