Ray From Cleveland
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That's kind of knee jerk if you ask me. This only happened one time in such a venue and likely would not happen again in the future. The idea of terrorism is to terrorize people forcing them walk on eggshells from that point on.
As bad as 911 was and the deaths that took place, the real delight for terrorists is what happened afterwards. Random searches of airport passengers, TSA agents and their body scanners, long waits at airports, shutting down of operations because somebody found a suspicious looking luggage bag, things like that.
As a truck driver I can honestly say how it greatly effected air freight deliveries and pickups although I'm not at liberty to say how. What I can tell you is that 911 made it a real pain in the ass for all of us due to overreaction and over precautions. The terrorists are still winning over fifteen years after their attack. They share delight in our paranoia.
We can't let this unfortunate incident change the way we live. We can't allow liberals to cash in on this tragedy. The worst thing we could do is disallow outdoor concerts next to tall buildings, or have a militant presence at every event. Look at us! We are discussing the use of bump stock even though it was never used before and probably never will be used again even if left legal.
There is nothing wrong with learning from this situation, but what would be wrong is for us to be expecting a similar attack in the future and taking ridiculous precautions like having snipers at each event. If a hotel (or whatever) next to an event sees something unusual, no doubt, report it to somebody. In 99% of the cases, it would probably be nothing. But allowing us to be terrorized for the rest of our lives would be a huge win for this maniac; even worse if he did have some connection to a terrorist group.
Just like lightning actually strikes the same place MORE frequently than you have been led to believe, once a bad group figures out how soft a target is, they will continue to exploit those now identified soft targets.
Like always, there may be attempted copy cats, but very few if any and certainly not at this level. But after some time, people forget and it goes away as it always does.
Fun lovers are now well aware of this possibility, but we need to leave it up to them if they refuse to bow down and allow this thing to ruin their enjoyment. If they are weary, then don't go. If they are willing to take a chance no matter how low the risk is of something like this happening again, then it's up to them.
If something like this does happen over and over again, that's a different story. Evil wins and we need to do more. But for right now, I think our best approach is not to get too carried away with all this.
I disagree with you. Criminals are by nature not creative. That's why they are criminals. This guy was waaaay different from the run of the mill mass murderer. He has laid out a very easy to copy template, and I guarantee you that others will follow in his footsteps.
Okay, so let's just create a law to stop all outdoor concerts. Let's have body searches and X-ray machines in all hotel facilities. Maybe even have a curfew in Vegas. No more walking around to casinos after dark. Casinos can only stay open for their hotel guests, and locked doors at that.
Outside of Vegas, shut down all professional sports arenas that are near any kind of high rise buildings. We hosted the NY Yankees this evening in the playoffs; should have never happened since our stadium is surrounded by tall buildings.
All this just so people can have guns huh? Seems guns are more important than any other kind of liberty.
No, I didn't say so everybody can have guns. Criminals are going to have guns even if we made it a death penalty crime. You can't change that, the Democrats can't change that, no law in the world can change that. I don't know how this is so difficult for the left to understand.
And here is the question that keeps being asked: what law would have prevented this kook from doing what he did or worse? If you can tell me what that law is, I'll support such a law.