same with bomb makers. they re typically criminals that take the path of least resistance. th a successful bomb maker survives putting it together. the sayoc bombs had power supply, the switch, initiator, and explosives. i am sure reporters are asking questions. i m pretty certain if there was a link to the sayoc devices, we would have heard something by now. that was my question. in terms of what they re putting out. bpd on scene at suspicious device discovered outside a post office, that s different as well, outside 2000 block of south park avenue. they re not saying there are similarities right off the bat. does that give you pause? let s go back in the near past, the austin serial bomber. last march, 18 days of terror, employed different switching
the people talked about was that and rightfully so it was a big thing rightly so but now we have got the momentum we get trump who so said his political opponents and the media were trying to score political points with a mail bomb scare. and you got me is my initiator has been following events in washington and she sent us this assessment. case cracked maybe police apprehended a fifty six year old florida man in connection with a string of pipe bombs that have been sent to prominent democratic political operatives across the country we know that he is definitely a supporter of president trump based on both his social media post and on his van that was plastered and stickers and apprehended at the scene as well we also know that he has a criminal history stretching back about thirty years including one arrest that police made in two thousand and two after he made a bomb threat but there s still a lot that we don t know we don t have the official motive of these attacks from
why not yesterday? why not next week? there is some emotional initiator. and many times, that can be a recent events. it s the aha phenomenon. aha, now i know what to do, when to carry it out. as we talked earlier, there have been over 275 mass shootings in the united states, four or more people shot in the same shooting. so there are plenty of examples, unfortunately, in this country of an individual, if he or she wants to act out and use a weapon as a form of conflict resolution, those examples are there. all they need to do is initiator, something in their brain that says today is the day, go forward and murder. and that s what happened this morning. in terms of those weapons, let s bring in jim cavanaugh into the conversation again. jim we are told there was an ar-style weapon. i believe you have identified it as a long gun, using that vernacular.
the sentiments are fermenting for quite some time. speak to that and how you look at that in the investigation. well, we have said for years, both for our school shootings, violence in the workplace and others, that a shooter or individual doesn t just snap. he or she has a period that builds up. again, shawn is absolutely right. we have seen these individuals anywhere from just a matter of weeks to a year and a half or longer. the columbine shooters, the two teenagers from columbine in 1999, planned a year and a half before they carried that off. and we see others take that long, too. but you know, i will also say that when you are planning it, you need some emotional initiator. just like on a bomb, you need something to set that bomb off. in the human mind you need something to set you off. i am prepared, i have the guns, i have the ammunition, i know what my target might be. but why today?
a number of bombing. two weeks later they were copy cat bombers that didn t get the dent nay t de detonator right. bombers can make a mistake along the way it doesn t get the result they wanted, right? that s a possibility as well. fair point, jim. here is the thing that takes me to another realm, that these might be being sent just for message sake. there is 11 of them now. now, we have heard no reporting yet 12. 12, i m sorry. we have heard there is not an initiator. and the type of switch that was used was a timer. that s not what we typically see. historically we have not seen that type of a switch used for a package bomb. why? you want the package to open when it gets to the intended recipient. in this case it was set to a