User Profile: rtk

Member Since: February 02, 2011

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  • There are places in this country where the thought of defending yourself with a firearm is more frightening than the thought of being robbed. There are jurisdictions where the homeowner would be charged because he/she left a location of safety (the closet) and wantonly and recklessly precipitated the armed confrontation. Sad but true.

  • The laws concerning trespass on infrastructure sites are designed to keep innocuous trespassers like poachers away. “Catch and release” may be a good idea for trout.
    It is not the actual harm they can cause but the distrust they can create in the general population. That is what terrorism is all about. TSA plays into the hands of terrorists by constantly reminding us we are at risk. The 9/11 hijackers spend thousands of dollars and we have spent billions to counter the last threat not the next one.

    Trespassing on infrastructure sites must mean jail time. Airports, rail yards, dam sites, power distribution hubs, water works…..successful attacks on these will fundamentally change how we live.

  • Bloomberg makes the cse for calling this “terrorism: in the long accepted definition that is a act designed to cause political change. The bad guys spend hundreds of dollars and society reacts by spending billions of dollars to protect us fro the last kind of event not the next kind of event. We will spend ourselves to death and be no safer. We will surrender our liberty and be no safer. We are on a slippery slope listening to politicians who tell us what we want to hear – they know what is best for us. The older brother had several interactions with authorities and came to the attention of the Russian security apapratus. They thought he was dangerous enough to warn us about him – I could never conceive of writing about the Russians being that helpful. Congress should talk to the FBI agents who interviewed him and the Immigration agent who denied him citizenship.

  • If you listen to the police radio tapes you would know that they were using rubber bullets to distract him. It was probably very disorienting with rubber bullets and flashbangs. When he had enough he complied with their instructions. Remarkable restraint by the FBI HRT.

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  • And the government could not actually ban them so it taxed them. FDR used the taxing authority of the Congress to avoid a 2nd Amendment challenge.

  • I wonder how the guy who was carjacked feels about being protected by vast numbers of heavily armed police in the Boston area? Did he feel helpless or confident in his own safety knowing that the police were only minutes away?

  • Did he take the oath of naturalization to conceal his real intentions?
    “I hereby declare, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncombatant service in the armed forces of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; so help me God.”

  • Unless you are targeted in error. Ask two Asian women delivering newspapers. When government has unlimited power it will use it. Try putting the genie back in the bottle.

  • No one has postulated the “piloted suicide bomb”.