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Flanagan's Effects On The Virginia Shootings

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The internet has been used to post all the plans of people. Many people post what they are doing or what they are going to do. People in some occasions post to hurt or harm other people. The video of the Virginia shootings posted by Bryce Williams, whose real name is Vester Lee Flanagan and who is thought to be the gunman who killed two of his former co-workers at the television station WDBJ (Manjoo) was publish and it took the police a long time to find him. The government can stop acts of violence and crime if they see everything that happens on the internet and social media. Maybe if the government saw this video of Flanagan killing two other women, then probably he would have been catch sooner. If the government knows before time, who is

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