agent-maroon said:Virtually impossible to think of every possible way a terrorist could do their thing. Expression I heard as a design engineer - "The only thing you accomplish by making something idiot-proof is to unmask a previously unknown kind of idiot." Replace "idiot" with "terrorist" and the same principle applies.AgGrad99 said:
I mean, let's be real...yeah, those barriers are poorly thought out.
But bad guys are going to do bad things.
We stop them one way, they'll use another. It's what makes them bad.
In a similar situation, my family is in the manufacturing business, and one of the things they made was to hold video games in retail stores. They were getting stolen so frequently, they had to start making the cages lockable (this seems obvious now but we are talking 29 years ago). Then when they got the locking cages, come to find out the wire mesh on the doors was too wide spread, and kids with small hands could get through there, open the cases, and bend the CD's (that old of games) just enough to not break but still slip out the wire. And we starting using the phrase 'locks only keep the honest people out'.
This doesn't detract from the fact that American citizens were failed by their government. Especially if like all of these types of things, school shootings, terrorist attacks, we find out later that they were all showing all the signs of doing something like this and on FBI 'radars' but somehow nothing was ever done. But if this guy wanted to do this bad enough, no amount of physical impediment would have stopped him.
Ban guns, people kill with knives and bats. Block the roads, they take the sidewalk. As many have stated, a free society like we value can only do so much when there are people who don't share those values. We have a very broken system of the types of people we let in this country, and many we didn't let in that came anyway. I know this guy was born and raised in Texas, but this type of thing doesn't seem to happen with non-Muslim immigrants at any generation. But by all means, next time we are getting on a flight, continue to check my 85 year old grandmother's suitcase because her hair curler was 1/8" too long while a cohort of people who look like afghan goat herders go right through security.
