Mass Shootings/Terrorism
skibum609
Massachusetts
Do mass shootings and/ore terrorist actions have any impact on how you live your life? Examples: Every year on patriots day I go to the Red Sox game and after it is done I walk over to watch the Marathon. I was there for the bombings and every year both prior and subsequent. We have plans to go to Vegas in 8 weeks and will keep them and change nothing. What about you?
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A few years after 9/11 I took my young daughter to see them inflating the balloons for the Macy's Thanksgiving parade. The crowd must have been 10-11 deep, and it went on for a few blocks. I was thinking of how we could get out if something happened, and it didn't seem possible, and that wasn't a good feeling. Nothing actually happened, but it's something that I think about now.
I think that is why these cowards choose "soft targets like children, "gun free zones", gun free countries, surrogates, or use long distances and/or wmd's to do their dirty work.
The media (news, movies and gaming) has made murder fashionable. The puppet masters behind the scenes play on the weak minded and play up minor slights to convince the imbalanced to plan and play out scenes like Los Vegas. I would be shock and surprised if this nut job did this without any outside help or influence.
The average shmuck can't just convert a semi auto weapon to fully auto or buy on at the local sporting goods store. I wonder if those machine guns were from the "fast and furious" scheme the previous administration forced legitimate dealer to trade in illegal arms supplied by the government that went astray when the scheme went sideways.
This guy planned carefully, there was little that could have been done to stop him and if you think that "gun laws" could have stopped him you are a fool or stupid. He had illegal weapons and he either bought them illegally or hired someone to illegally convert them. Converting a semi auto to fully auto(those machine guns were not "bump-fire" they were fully auto) REQUIRES gun smithing skill and a machine shop!
If you're talking about the kind of violence that occurred in Las Vegas, it's just plain depressing that we can't enact better gun laws like they have in the UK. Nothing really changed after Sandy Hook. If children getting slaughtered didn't change the status quo, nothing will. I've given up hope.
After 911 I was wondering if one terrorist looked like someone I knew in college. I thought again, can't be, that would be crazy. As far as places I go, I like for security to be in place. However I expect others to do that job.