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August 14, 2019 Ten days after the massacres in El Paso and Dayton that caused thirty-one deaths, the FBI has perhaps avoided another massacre: Justin Olsen, 18, was arrested in Boardman, a town of 30,000 inhabitants in Ohio, which threatened to shoot the policemen on sight and make a killing in the counseling offices. In the house, where Justin Olsen lived with his father, fifteen rifles were found, including the infamous Ar-15 often used in mass slaughter, ten semi-automatic pistols and about ten thousand ammunition. There was a machete in his car. The agents had been investigating the boy since February, since they had read his delusional messages on the iFunny website: under the pseudonym "ArmyofChrist", Army of Christ, Olsen had launched anti-abortion slogans and recalled the massacres carried out by right-wing extremists. Next to the nickname, the image of a medieval crusader appeared, a symbol in vogue in the circle of Christian extremists. The magistrates authorized the FBI to act, the agents made a blitz in the boy's house, because from the last of his messages they understood that he felt the need to take action, inspired by the latest massacres, one of which in Dayton, which is 400 kilometers from the boy's house. His account had more than five thousand followers before it was suspended. Agents Olsen said the posts were just a game and that the references to the massacres were "hyperbolic conclusions based on the siege of Waco", where the police, in 1993, after fifty days of siege to a religious sect of David, set fire to the ranch. 76 people died in the fire, including many children. In the offending posts, Olsen was inspired by the massacre to justify the fact that it was necessary to "shoot every federal agent on sight". The Waco massacre was inspired by Timothy McVeigh, the extreme right-wing terrorist who in 1995 in Oklahoma City blew up a federal building, killing 168 people. In one post, Olsen called the massacre a "valid method of political change".