Originally Posted by chanceforester
You nailed it bro. Every time some fool does something like this our freedoms are eroded. It's a joke though because firearms restrictions are demonstrably ineffective. Take Chicago for example: the strictest gun laws in the nation and high gun violence. It would take a decade to disarm a population and probably decades, before guns were "harder" to get illegally or whatever. I have no great affection for the TSA. They are for the most part, ill trained and apparently ineffective. Maybe that will change. Personally, I have no problem with checkpoints at airports and what not. If I can't take a weapon in, no one else should be able to either. Frankly, we need to follow Israel's example: On my last trip there, I was astounded at how efficient and effective the Security is. When you are standing in line to check luggage and check in, you are greeted by a (typically) tiny young Israeli girl (some of them very cute, by the way) who ask you a few simple questions. They are highly trained to "profile" whackos. The government uses young women because they are particularly adept at "profiling", as it turns out. They make full eye contact look for anything suspicious. And they are good at it. In regard to the shooter being a horrible shot, yes, and thank God. He was obviously not trained, other than probably stupid ass violent video games. We have a real problem here in this country. Don't get me wrong, I'm an American man raised on a steady diet of violence since I was old enough to look at a TV. But I wonder how a video game like Grand Theft Auto is so prolific? Stealing cars and killing cops? Really? There is really something wrong here. And I'm not sure what it is or what the solution is, but disarming the population is not the solution; in fact, I think it is the anti-solution. Maybe I am living in a dream world, but I think there are more "good" people out there that don't want to cause harm than "bad" people that do. For cryin' out loud, can you imagine you and your family being caught up in this? Frankly, I hope Paul lives, so we can find out more about this new-normal mind-set that he apparently has. We all know the government is a mess and many of us don't agree with what's happening, but IMHO that's not how it's done. Although this wasn't "Islamic" terrorism, it is in fact, an act of terror. The sad part of this is that this young man was trying to make a statement about the government, but his message was lost in the violence. Some of us from the older generation that have grown up around firearms and have a deep respect for an 150 grain round that travels at 1500 feet per second and the impact thereof. I wonder what Paul was thinking when he saw his bullets kill the first guy and he proceeded into the terminal to search for other victims. I guess it’s like being homosexual. I just can’t relate to it.
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