We desperately need to have a discussion about whether there has to be a better way of monitoring and dealing with (and limiting access to firearms of) people who have a history like this — which is the case with virtually every mass shooter:
- Ramos actively posted on social-media platforms, and the messages and images could be macabre or violent, according to people who said they saw them.
- He displayed photos of guns and knives, they said.
- He made a TikTok video showing him punching a wall and saying he would take on anyone who messed with him, Ms. Foutz said.
- In another video, she said, he was seated in the passenger seat of a car holding a bag with what appeared to be a dead cat in it.
- Ramos posted pictures on Instagram of him cutting himself, with blood in a sink, Ms. Vasquez said.
- Earlier this year, she said, he showed up to school one day with a mask on, and when he took it off, his face had scars and scratches that he said he had inflicted on himself.
- A screenshot of an Instagram story on an account linked to him, which since has been taken down, showed an ammunition magazine.
- A TikTok account with the same handle, “@salv8dor_,” which also has been removed, showed a photo of two rifles. The account included in its description the line, “Kids be scared.”
