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OT: Active shooter(s) on the loose after mass shooting in San Bernadino....

Dude, once again, he is blowing up muslims all over the fricken place.
Who cares what he says?
Bush babbled about "wanted, dead or alive" and a year later was babbling about not thinking about OBL.
BHO, against the advice of most of his advisors pulled the trigger on the OBL raid.

Liberals hate him for it
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ayobami-olugbemiga/post_9375_b_7157364.html

Muslims hate him for it
http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/10/obama-misled-the-public-on-drones.html

What more do you want?

Yes, he did the OBL raid. Good for him, cannot take that away. He accomplished what W and crew couldn't or maybe wouldn't.

However now, late in his second term, his agenda is his agenda and nothing is going to stand in the way of it.
 
It is comical, pathetic, and also sad that average Americans can go buy a miltary-style high-power assault rifle. Those things are only good for 1 thing: killing humans. You dont need it for anything else. Why dont we sell tanks and bombs also?

You cant stop everybody that wants to be a killer but you can prevent some loss of life if assault rifles were made illegal. Isn't that a compromise? Go ahead, buy all the guns you want, but no more assault rifles. You dont need them for hunting, target practice, or self defense.
I'm not sure how "assault rifles" are defined, but making them illegal (full automatic rifles are already illegal, I think.) won't eliminate them. Or come close. There are millions in circulation, possibly?? And there are plenty of illegal weapons all over. Terrorists will find what they need. Hell, Eric Holder sold them to Mexican druglords.
 
Not beyond hope.
Just beyond listening to reactionaries who want to parse tragedies depending on the religion of the shooter.
It's either all terrorism or it's not.
You don't have to scream Allah Akbar while shooting to qualify as terrorist.
Nice diversion, considering I never wrote what you assign to me. I list McVeigh as a terrorist. You guys consider every killing terrorism, and that is just plain silly. Most things in life are not an all or nothing scenario, though I know you struggle with that. That doesn't make people who don't suffer from that affliction a reactionary.
 
Warrants aren't required for meta data gathering which was what the NSA was doing. They are required when the Feds decide to dig into someones conversations and that was the NSA process.
Survailance activities don't require warrants if a crime or wrong doing is suspected especially if the authorities are just observing.Anyone can enter a mosque, church, etc and be with those worshipping.
You liberals seem to want to give the bad guys all the advantages possible which makes me wonder which side you people are on?

You have plenty of glib, condescending remarks about libs like this one in this string.

Yet none has gone so far as to question your patriotism.
 
Yes, he did the OBL raid. Good for him, cannot take that away. He accomplished what W and crew couldn't or maybe wouldn't.

However now, late in his second term, his agenda is his agenda and nothing is going to stand in the way of it.

Well, that is a different discussion.
 
Child, please. Cool beans Soufie. Let's act like a black lady so we can show how connected yinz liberals are to them.

Yes, the mass shootings are ridiculous. Yes, we need come seriously common sense gun control laws and yes, the NRA has bought and paid for and made a lot of our elected officials stupid. But this is an Islamic attack. Just like in France. Where they have uber restrictive gun laws. So, I am sure there are other threads where you can debate this and be completely on point. Just not on this incident.

And "fear", the latest Liberal narrative. The only thing I fear to be honest is my own government and its incompetencies. And if you don't, just look at our candidates...ON BOTH SIDES!
355 mass shootings in recent history, and you are wetting your pants over this one?
 
Nice diversion, considering I never wrote what you assign to me. I list McVeigh as a terrorist. You guys consider every killing terrorism, and that is just plain silly. Most things in life are not an all or nothing scenario, though I know you struggle with that. That doesn't make people who don't suffer from that affliction a reactionary.
I don't consider any of them terrorism per se.
Which is why I'm asking why the silence on terrorism rhetoric on clearly targetted mass schootjngs like planned parenthood, charleston, Arizona , and Kansas City?
Why are those different?
 
gun related homicides, and violent crimes in general, have been declining in numbers for several years. there is some evidence that mass shootings are slightly on the rise, but many of them (mass shootings) are gang v. gang related.

so - here's a real question for advocates of more gun control: will tighter gun laws really have any effect on gang violence, or on active shooter events? both are perpetrated by individuals who act with clear criminal intent. how will a tighter gun control law deter a criminal from committing the crime he intends to commit? I mean - he's a criminal - why would he care about the law?

there are 350,000,000 guns in the USA. how are tighter gun control laws going to keep criminals (gangs and active shooters) from getting their arsenal from another criminal?

I'm 100% in favor of real and full debate of the issue - but President Obama uses the term "common sense gun laws" - so OK - tell me the common sense of how you keep active shooters, terrorists, and gangs from illegally purchasing or taking ownership of weapons by making more laws which they'll not follow - because by default we know they're not interested in following the law.

tell me how any law which has been proposed would prevent any of the active shooter or gun terroism events of the past year.

can you come up with something real, effective, and actually able to be implemented, and which can prevent this particular type of crime (gangs, active shooters, terrorists), and we'll talk.

because otherwise, gun crime has been on the steady decline since 1993. so what are you trying to accomplish?
 
I very rarely post but I would like to give my two cents on this topic. Fully automatic guns produced after 1986 are illegal, therefore any full auto guns are tens of thousands of dollars. Full auto guns are not being used in these shootings. Full auto guns are owned in large part by gun dealers and well to do gun enthusiasts.

Most think of AR-15s when they think of assault rifles. AR-15s are semi-auto rifles that are mostly 223/5.56 NATO caliber. When I hear the term high powered assault rifle I find it hard to take the speakers knowledge of guns seriously. The muzzle energy of a 223 is about 1300 ft.lb. The typical 30-30 or 30-06 deer rifles are 2,000 ft.lb. and 3,000 ft.lb. respectively. A lowly 22 is 700 ft.lb. The typical 12 gauge slug is 2,700 ft.lb. All guns have the capacity to kill. The most prolific American sniper in Vietnam used a simple 30-06 for most of his 93 confirmed kills. This is the same gun that thousands of hunters take to the woods with deer hunting every year. To the answer of what about magazine capacity my answer is CA already has a law limiting it to 10 rounds, no different than the capacity of many other “hunting” rifles.

My question is what are the common sense gun laws that you would like passed? What are the exact loop holes you would like closed?
 
I'm not sure how "assault rifles" are defined, but making them illegal (full automatic rifles are already illegal, I think.) won't eliminate them. Or come close.
Clearly. That is exactly what happened here. Bout legal assault rifles and modified them to fully automatic. Stricter gun laws could possibly slow down the mas shooting epidemic. But terrorists will always find a way to create catastrophic events.
 
"However now, late in his second term, his agenda is his agenda and nothing is going to stand in the way of it."

My agenda is to call all terrorists what they are:

Radical Islamic Extremists..responsible for Paris, California and other unfathomable acts in the Mid East/
Radical Republican Extremists...responsible for Planned Parenthood Murders
 
gun related homicides, and violent crimes in general, have been declining in numbers for several years. there is some evidence that mass shootings are slightly on the rise, but many of them (mass shootings) are gang v. gang related.

so - here's a real question for advocates of more gun control: will tighter gun laws really have any effect on gang violence, or on active shooter events? both are perpetrated by individuals who act with clear criminal intent. how will a tighter gun control law deter a criminal from committing the crime he intends to commit? I mean - he's a criminal - why would he care about the law?

there are 350,000,000 guns in the USA. how are tighter gun control laws going to keep criminals (gangs and active shooters) from getting their arsenal from another criminal?

I'm 100% in favor of real and full debate of the issue - but President Obama uses the term "common sense gun laws" - so OK - tell me the common sense of how you keep active shooters, terrorists, and gangs from illegally purchasing or taking ownership of weapons by making more laws which they'll not follow - because by default we know they're not interested in following the law.

tell me how any law which has been proposed would prevent any of the active shooter or gun terroism events of the past year.

can you come up with something real, effective, and actually able to be implemented, and which can prevent this particular type of crime (gangs, active shooters, terrorists), and we'll talk.

because otherwise, gun crime has been on the steady decline since 1993. so what are you trying to accomplish?

Well, the 350 million guns - in a country with about 320 million people - is obviously part of the problem.

You can still make it difficult for someone to get one (or a dozen). Yeah, I'm sure there will be someone who shouldn't have a gun that manages to get one, but right now with the current laws, it's not too hard for one to get one through a private sale or gun show.

If I'm not mistaken, you live in Charleston, WV, right? (may be thinking of someone else). If so, you should know all about the issue we have here, with the Detroit scum coming down here - I live by Huntington - in part because they can get guns cheap and easy in West Virginia, and then sell them back in Detroit. Think it would be a bit different if there was less supply and harder to get throughout the whole country?
 
There is no such thing as an assult weapon. It was a term that was created by the British army after world war I to measure different weapons used to assult a trench.
 
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Like, say...offering a bill to limit gun access to those on the terror watch list? Something common sense like that?
Yep, that bill failed because of the majority party, only 1 member voted in support of it.
I'll give you a hint who lacked the intestinal fortitude.
Souf - just playing devil's advocate, you do realize Ted Kennedy was on that list at one time, right? I think perhaps accessing the terror watch list could be an additional tool, but it should not be used as an absolute. Too many mistakes on the list.
 
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If you have a minute and are so inclined, I stumbled on a very common sense, nonpartisan article entitled "Five Ways the US can reduce mass shootings". It supports an action plan that requires both sides of these issues to compromise. And just based on the obvious polarity in this thread, I don't see it happening in Washington. It's a shame.

http://news.yahoo.com/five-ways-us-reduce-mass-shootings-133524659.html
 
Souf - just playing devil's advocate, you do realize Ted Kennedy was on that list at one time, right? I think perhaps accessing the terror watch list could be an additional tool, but it should not be used as an absolute. Too many mistakes on the list.

Well when you drive into a lake then run away leaving someone else to die you deserve to be on some kind of list. Not to get off topic.
 
Souf - just playing devil's advocate, you do realize Ted Kennedy was on that list at one time, right? I think perhaps accessing the terror watch list could be an additional tool, but it should not be used as an absolute. Too many mistakes on the list.
He sure terrorized that chick in that car.

But what's the worst case scenario, an innocent person can't buy a gun legally for a time period??
The horror
 
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He sure terrorized that chick in that car.

But what's the worst case scenario, an innocent person can't buy a gun legally for a time period??
The horror
No, I agree. Just that IMHO, it should only be used a tool, not an absolute.
 
I'm not sure how "assault rifles" are defined, but making them illegal (full automatic rifles are already illegal, I think.) won't eliminate them. Or come close. There are millions in circulation, possibly?? And there are plenty of illegal weapons all over. Terrorists will find what they need. Hell, Eric Holder sold them to Mexican druglords.
Can go Australian on them.
 
I was in a Seminar Briefing on Isis & Terrorism and Mass Shootings, affects on Political Outcomes, and Learned Few Things to share with Lair Posters:

1. When Mass Shooting is taking place the studies have shown one has 6 Minutes to get out and get safe, or you will be killed. SWAT Teams Average Response Times are 2 Hours to decide what to do! Therefore, a new paradigm is coming about that the likelihood of waiting and negotiating is now going to be replaced with immediate entry and just going in to save as many as possible. First Responders are going to take a step up from now on, instead of waiting.

2. After shooting up the workplace, the Suicide Couple after abandoning their own child, was heading towards a school to shoot others people's children and that will be a future event coming soon unfortunately.

3.Converts make up 40% of the Suicide Recruits! They are naive and more easily to make into a Suicide Killer after being taught the new religions with fervent fevers than long time practicing members. They are taught if caught claim you are doing a crime because that way they survive under Constitutional Protections, but our Police are alert to that and these guys and women are just dumb!


4. Bin Laden was Addicted to Porn and thousands of Pornography CDs and Tapes were found when he was take out. A bigger jerk to his one followers as he was jerking off! Unlike Hollywood Movies images project Super Terrorist to keep Audience Entertainment Attention, this is not factual. The fact are most terrorists are not very smart at all, and quite stupid, many caught and not publicized.

5. Infrastructure, Electrical Grids, and other everyday things we need to maintain a society are being targeted in order to break down society, living with weeks to months with no electricity could happen at many places soon. economies are built on good infrastructure that can be maintained and open to everyone, but protection is tougher now more than ever. Why Homes with self energy are being designed without depending on Big Energy Plants. Transition need 30 years!


6. Sporting Events will be targeted as a means to cause additional economic havoc and attendance is going to take a dive if a big attack happens and 1000s not 100s will be killed. Big Stadiums and Schools with Big Attendance are preparing for downsizing, not up-sizing anymore. This trend was happening anyway, as TV takes over, but Isis Attacks will hasten the demise. The Costs and Expenses of Security at Big Stadiums is going up way faster and Big Stadium White Elephants will be developing more with a Terrorists Attack.

7. Women are standing up facing great peril. Many Women Reporters, Writers, and especially Isamlic Women have stood up to Islamic Imans and Clerics that ordered their deaths for speaking out. They have had to become what is termed..."Ghost People" having to change their names, social security, and personal information like Witness Protection. But many refuse to do it too! They are what Isis fears the most and misguided Islamic Religious Leadership that is against Western Secularism!

8. Many Muslim's Brave Men and Women Immigrants and Nationals that have migrated to the USA have joined the FBI and CIA and Homeland Security have stopped many Terrorists Plots and take great pride in beating the terrorists with their own Middle East Minds and do not care about credit, just stopping the killing and plots before they happen.


10. Once again, just as others think America is in its last days or will be divided and unable to fight, American Values just like in WWII defeated Nazi Thugs, Japanese Militarists and Italian Fascist and outlasted and replaced the Russian Communists, Isis and those that misuse Islam will be changed over the next 30 years.

10. The Iman and Clerics using Islam to fight Democracies that is rejected in the Quran, since the man that brings victory in battle is honored above all other men, never last. They don't understand that Democratic Societies can suspend Constitutions like the French are doing now, but in the end the Constitutions survive and comeback once they eliminate the threat. They may succeed at times but in time they make plans to disrupt societies thinking Constitutionals Rights is our weakness, but have no idea we can suspend them and target those suspensions when we have to do it.

It was sobering seminar to say the least, but we have many good people protecting and smart always beat dumb!
 
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I was in a Seminar Briefing on Isis & Terrorism and Mass Shootings, affects on Political Outcomes, and Learned Few Things to share with Lair Posters:

1. When Mass Shooting is taking place the studies have shown one has 6 Minutes to get out and get safe, or you will be killed. SWAT Teams Average Response Times are 2 Hours to decide what to do! Therefore, a new paradigm is coming about that the likelihood of waiting and negotiating is now going to be replaced with immediate entry and just going in to save as many as possible. First Responders are going to take a step up from now on, instead of waiting.

2. After shooting up the workplace, the Suicide Couple after abandoning their own child, was heading towards a school to shoot others people's children and that will be a future event coming soon unfortunately.

3.Converts make up 40% of the Suicide Recruits! They are naive and more easily to make into a Suicide Killer after being taught the new religions with fervent fevers than long time practicing members. They are taught if caught claim you are doing a crime because that way they survive under Constitutional Protections, but our Police are alert to that and these guys and women are just dumb!


4. Bin Laden was Addicted to Porn and thousands of Pornography CDs and Tapes were found when he was take out. A bigger jerk to his one followers as he was jerking off! Unlike Hollywood Movies images project Super Terrorist to keep Audience Entertainment Attention, this is not factual. The fact are most terrorists are not very smart at all, and quite stupid, many caught and not publicized.

5. Infrastructure, Electrical Grids, and other everyday things we need to maintain a society are being targeted in order to break down society, living with weeks to months with no electricity could happen at many places soon. economies are built on good infrastructure that can be maintained and open to everyone, but protection is tougher now more than ever. Why Homes with self energy are being designed without depending on Big Energy Plants. Transition need 30 years!


6. Sporting Events will be targeted as a means to cause additional economic havoc and attendance is going to take a dive if a big attack happens and 1000s not 100s will be killed. Big Stadiums and Schools with Big Attendance are preparing for downsizing, not up-sizing anymore. This trend was happening anyway, as TV takes over, but Isis Attacks will hasten the demise. The Costs and Expenses of Security at Big Stadiums is going up way faster and Big Stadium White Elephants will be developing more with a Terrorists Attack.

7. Women are standing up facing great peril. Many Women Reporters, Writers, and especially Isamlic Women have stood up to Islamic Imans and Clerics that ordered their deaths for speaking out. They have had to become what is termed..."Ghost People" having to change their names, social security, and personal information like Witness Protection. But many refuse to do it too! They are what Isis fears the most and misguided Islamic Religious Leadership that is against Western Secularism!

8. Many Muslim's Brave Men and Women Immigrants and Nationals that have migrated to the USA have joined the FBI and CIA and Homeland Security have stopped many Terrorists Plots and take great pride in beating the terrorists with their own Middle East Minds and do not care about credit, just stopping the killing and plots before they happen.


10. Once again, just as others think America is in its last days or will be divided and unable to fight, American Values just like in WWII defeated Nazi Thugs, Japanese Militarists and Italian Fascist and outlasted and replaced the Russian Communists, Isis and those that misuse Islam will be changed over the next 30 years.

10. The Iman and Clerics using Islam to fight Democracies that is rejected in the Quran, since the man that brings victory in battle is honored above all other men, never last. They don't understand that Democratic Societies can suspend Constitutions like the French are doing now, but in the end the Constitutions survive and comeback once they eliminate the threat. They may succeed at times but in time they make plans to disrupt societies thinking Constitutionals Rights is our weakness, but have no idea we can suspend them and target those suspensions when we have to do it.

It was sobering seminar to say the least, but we have many good people protecting and smart always beat dumb!
In my faith, I have found converts and more to the point, recent converts to be far too literal and enthused than suits my tastes.
 
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Over five years ago our county law enforcement determined that they would not wait on active shooting scenarios in our public schools. They do drills every year now and are coordinated that for any of them, as soon as they have enough law enforcement on site they will enter buildings to go after the shooters.

Honestly, we are lucky more sporting events other than the boston marathon have not been hit.

We are divided, and I will just leave it at that because it will get far too contensious to call the mindbending partisan divide in this country.

The perspective in the country is so out of whack, it defies belief.

We have so many bigger issues here at home we dont even have the first capacity to come together and address, but the focus now is on something we really cant "fix."

People are just far too caught up in a superficial view of things, living a life of comfort that gives way to a calloused and childish view of things.

We are so blessed to have been born in this country, but god dam we are just some stupid screws right now ...
 
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In my faith, I have found converts and more to the point, recent converts to be far too literal and enthused than suits my tastes.
Happens often in many faiths, the new Converts are usually more serious of practicing what they learn when the change or join any Faith. Especially when young or later lost in life by Mid-Age and looking for answers and find Misguided Teachers, False Prophets, and Political Agenda People that can misuse the energy and enthusiasm!

I call them Pimps Pulpit Profits!


Even Military uses that Methodism when the Romans first called it "INFANTry" Put the younger soliders upfront to take the first blows and too dumb to know!
 
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"However now, late in his second term, his agenda is his agenda and nothing is going to stand in the way of it."

My agenda is to call all terrorists what they are:

Radical Islamic Extremists..responsible for Paris, California and other unfathomable acts in the Mid East/
Radical Republican Extremists...responsible for Planned Parenthood Murders

Are you talking about that Transgender PotHead in Colorado?
 
There is no such thing as an assult weapon. It was a term that was created by the British army after world war I to measure different weapons used to assult a trench.

But it excites the media so much to run around calling them 'Assault Rifles'. Do not deny the media of their great victory. Of course they were also excited to call them Kalashnikovs during the Paris Attack. Maybe 'assault rifle' doesn't get the ratings in Europe.
 
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"Jeffburgh, post: 621944, member: 204"]Over five years ago our county law enforcement determined that they would not wait on active shooting scenarios in our public schools.
The Expert brought that up, called it lesson Of Columbine, because the first Responders waited too long and elsewhere when Mass Shooting were happening and they were told not to go in and wait for others. Then the Gun Controllers of Gun Free Zones blamed the Guns!

They do drills every year now and are coordinated that for any of them, as soon as they have enough law enforcement on site they will enter buildings to go after the shooters.
Well, not exactly, all accurate. Although they practice the drills many times, it was still not adopted as a practice to go in right away until they heard shootings like in Paris. What the Expert said is that is the new response now. Isis Threats and other Threats has changed waiting to going in now.

Honestly, we are lucky more sporting events other than the boston marathon have not been hit.
Not luck at all, I was given a Tour of Heinz Stadium and Fort Pitt Tunnels with a group of selected people by PENNDOT and Stadium Security a few year ago and it was about Security everywhere. One needs special passes just to go to certain araes and limited and other aspects many do not know.

For example, If you ever need Gasoline run out nearby the Fort Pitt Tunnel near the bridge or after near the Tunnel and a Cop Car will be there is less than a minute with Gasoline to get you on your way.

When anyone important comes to Pittsburgh, the Tunnels are fill with Security in ways I cannot disclose, and Video can ID people faces in their cars, and when they can't that license is recorded for follow up!


This has added to the cost of games!

We are divided, and I will just leave it at that because it will get far too contensious to call the mindbending partisan divide in this country.
This is often misunderstood, Americans are always divided because of our right to opinions, but the better informed and smarter people always are united to face any threat but it takes time to adapt and trail and errors of new ways to stop those that seek to kill. Sure, at first many argue what to do, but sooner or later once America focuses on the threats they come to new ways to protect and adapt too!

The perspective in the country is so out of whack, it defies belief.
It may seem so, but I can tell you, exactly what happens when a President meets with his National Security Council,after a horrific event happens! Only one question is asked ...CAN THEY HURT US AGAIN?

After that answer, then decisions are made what to do, some get delayed, some get implemented, and when it happens again, more changes happen even faster.


Democracy are based on debate on what to do, but sooner or later when threats appear, action happens far more faster and not seen, so the threats are attacked and not alerted what is going happen next to them. Sometime it is ignored, but as soon as it happens again, attention does rise and counter measures taken, and not always constitutional.

We have so many bigger issues here at home we dont even have the first capacity to come together and address, but the focus now is on something we really cant "fix."
Well, I disagree, invitations and requirements to attend some Seminars on exactly these issues by Experts that study it everyday, increase and spread to get more ideas on how to meet and stop the threats. Sure, it looks often like we are ignoring and unprepared, but like anything else, every failure is admitted privately, but is studied and learned by others and then shared to get more information, to out last and strike back in ways the threats cannot adapt to then, but threats come every day, what is important is to stop that that day.

Many things happen for years without being known or published, but that is trial and errors mistakes happen too, and not every success can be talked about either.

People are just far too caught up in a superficial view of things, living a life of comfort that gives way to a calloused and childish view of things.
Well, that was exactly a Topic as well, in fact one Topic Quote was "War Teaches Americans About Geography!" It is a changing Global World with Global Economic consequences and Americans are used to knowing only about our local communities, regions, and ares, but when someone from a misguided belief comes from the desert and strikes to kill and hurt Americans, America takes time, and stops it first and then strikes back,, and that is often not known for years. Every Police Force and Security Groups are now learning new responses in this new brave rule of the purposeless process of societal suicide but we have many more that want to live and grow and be safe, and many are protecting us than we know.

We are so blessed to have been born in this country, but god dam we are just some stupid screws right now ...
Your opinion is well noted, and part of the solutions being worked upon as we post and speak about it, we might not all know what to do, and when to do it, but we study our failures more so we can learn to be a better success....kind like a Football Coach that learns from his mistakes but still coaches up his Players. In fact, we are blessed because people like you speak your mind too, and we all have doubts no one is doing anything, but your concerns and time help solve problems that need debate and time and action to solve sooner or later, therefore you are correct sir and part of the solution! We all are!
 
But it excites the media so much to run around calling them 'Assault Rifles'. Do not deny the media of their great victory. Of course they were also excited to call them Kalashnikovs during the Paris Attack. Maybe 'assault rifle' doesn't get the ratings in Europe.
The Media helps the debate and not always as then answers but the debates lead to real solutions that are constantly adapting and correcting. The Media Debates, Agendas actually helps explain the riddles full of errors of failure that leads to better solutions that must adapt to a changing world too.

Last week there was talk about New Gun Laws and the cause of shootings on Friday and only President Obama and FBI called it possibly Work Place Related, and there was reasons for that too?

Yet, today even after Trumps Comments, the debate has taken to another level, as Gun Companies stock climb with bigger sales and Media no longer mentioning New Gun Laws.

Now New Laws may be passed on other aspects of travel and other things, and reactions to Trump's Remarks will result in more opinions that can change too.

Last week many came out and called him a Nut, Names, and many other things, Just yesterday the New York Times printed, Democrats No,Longer Laughing At Trump Now?

The Pennsylvania Society is still holding a Fundraisers for Trump and it is far bigger today than what was planned last week?

The French Government has some of the best and biggest Gun laws in tehw orld, yet, Governments can stop Gun Running or Drugs? But The Killings in Paris have killed the French Constitution for now, that has been suspended with political implications rising higher than ever expected?

Another attacks and they are coming will change political fortunes as well, but then they will have to come up with new solutions too.

No one should be afraid to speak their minds but those that study the issues with well informed facts and debates on failure will prevail!


Smart Beats Dumb unless you live South of Oakland?
 
"Jeffburgh, post: 621944, member: 204"]Over five years ago our county law enforcement determined that they would not wait on active shooting scenarios in our public schools.
The Expert brought that up, called it lesson Of Columbine, because the first Responders waited too long and elsewhere when Mass Shooting were happening and they were told not to go in and wait for others. Then the Gun Controllers of Gun Free Zones blamed the Guns!

They do drills every year now and are coordinated that for any of them, as soon as they have enough law enforcement on site they will enter buildings to go after the shooters.
Well, not exactly, all accurate. Although they practice the drills many times, it was still not adopted as a practice to go in right away until they heard shootings like in Paris. What the Expert said is that is the new response now. Isis Threats and other Threats has changed waiting to going in now. I don't know about where you live. I know for a fact that in our county years ago, it was determined in our public schools by our local law enforcement that if there was a school shooting incident, once a certain number of tactical team members showed up they would enter the school and go after the shooter/s. They have drilled this for years now and would do it if it occurred.

Honestly, we are lucky more sporting events other than the boston marathon have not been hit.
Not luck at all, I was given a Tour of Heinz Stadium and Fort Pitt Tunnels with a group of selected people by PENNDOT and Stadium Security a few year ago and it was about Security everywhere. One needs special passes just to go to certain araes and limited and other aspects many do not know.

For example, If you ever need Gasoline run out nearby the Fort Pitt Tunnel near the bridge or after near the Tunnel and a Cop Car will be there is less than a minute with Gasoline to get you on your way.

When anyone important comes to Pittsburgh, the Tunnels are fill with Security in ways I cannot disclose, and Video can ID people faces in their cars, and when they can't that license is recorded for follow up!


This has added to the cost of games!

I understand that there there is more security now than ever at a lot of events, but not all. You can drive a truck full of cow poop wired up to explode close enough to a certain state school everyone here just loves that could take out side of the stadium and during a game and ... Any kind of "team" of people could go on a shooting rampage at any event ...

We are divided, and I will just leave it at that because it will get far too contensious to call the mindbending partisan divide in this country.
This is often misunderstood, Americans are always divided because of our right to opinions, but the better informed and smarter people always are united to face any threat but it takes time to adapt and trail and errors of new ways to stop those that seek to kill. Sure, at first many argue what to do, but sooner or later once America focuses on the threats they come to new ways to protect and adapt too!

We are going to keep on going and will be fine, but the stupid in this country is painful.

The perspective in the country is so out of whack, it defies belief.
It may seem so, but I can tell you, exactly what happens when a President meets with his National Security Council,after a horrific event happens! Only one question is asked ...CAN THEY HURT US AGAIN?

After that answer, then decisions are made what to do, some get delayed, some get implemented, and when it happens again, more changes happen even faster.


Democracy are based on debate on what to do, but sooner or later when threats appear, action happens far more faster and not seen, so the threats are attacked and not alerted what is going happen next to them. Sometime it is ignored, but as soon as it happens again, attention does rise and counter measures taken, and not always constitutional.


We have so many bigger issues here at home we dont even have the first capacity to come together and address, but the focus now is on something we really cant "fix."
Well, I disagree, invitations and requirements to attend some Seminars on exactly these issues by Experts that study it everyday, increase and spread to get more ideas on how to meet and stop the threats. Sure, it looks often like we are ignoring and unprepared, but like anything else, every failure is admitted privately, but is studied and learned by others and then shared to get more information, to out last and strike back in ways the threats cannot adapt to then, but threats come every day, what is important is to stop that that day.

Many things happen for years without being known or published, but that is trial and errors mistakes happen too, and not every success can be talked about either.

I am not saying we aren't doing anything or in fact are not doing a pretty good job with security. But, we can't kill them all and can't read the minds of everyone on the planet to every possible situation like Cali. These jackwagons ARE going to pull of things like this again. But, while we do what we have to do to try to prevent that, we lose a LOT more lives in a lot of different ways domestically that could be avoided if we worked on solutions to those issues, and literally nothing gets done AT BEST, while we have a lot of the country advocating for things that make it all worse.


People are just far too caught up in a superficial view of things, living a life of comfort that gives way to a calloused and childish view of things.
Well, that was exactly a Topic as well, in fact one Topic Quote was "War Teaches Americans About Geography!" It is a changing Global World with Global Economic consequences and Americans are used to knowing only about our local communities, regions, and ares, but when someone from a misguided belief comes from the desert and strikes to kill and hurt Americans, America takes time, and stops it first and then strikes back,, and that is often not known for years. Every Police Force and Security Groups are now learning new responses in this new brave rule of the purposeless process of societal suicide but we have many more that want to live and grow and be safe, and many are protecting us than we know.

We are so blessed to have been born in this country, but god dam we are just some stupid screws right now ...
Your opinion is well noted, and part of the solutions being worked upon as we post and speak about it, we might not all know what to do, and when to do it, but we study our failures more so we can learn to be a better success....kind like a Football Coach that learns from his mistakes but still coaches up his Players. In fact, we are blessed because people like you speak your mind too, and we all have doubts no one is doing anything, but your concerns and time help solve problems that need debate and time and action to solve sooner or later, therefore you are correct sir and part of the solution! We all are!
I've tried, and I didn't make much of a difference, and things are somehow worse now than before ... It isn't getting better.
 
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I've tried, and I didn't make much of a difference, and things are somehow worse now than before ... It isn't getting better.
There are no easy answers ever, all I know I attended a seminar I was invited to, and learned new information I did not know, and others may have known it too far sooner, and that is OK too, but I shared what I learned, and no one can remove failure from any process, but that is how to learn too. I respect you took the time to post what you feel and think, and not making a judgment just adding to the discussion.
 
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How many guns did the Boston Marathon bombers use to kill?...
It is about Terrorism.. not guns..
Terrorists are happy to use bombs, knives, etc...
The San Bernadino terrorists had plenty of pipe bombs with them... they didn't even need to use their guns...
Why scream gun control, when the focus should be on the Terrorists....
 
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