Ft. Lauderdale shooting

albert69
Tue, 10 Jan 2017 19:50:19 +0000

@Consolation The point I’m trying to make is that we’re all playing armchair quarterback here and saying that people should have noticed this, that, and the other thing about him when it probably isn’t as obvious as is sounds in hindsight. So the baggage handlers, specifically whoever was running the scanning machine that day, should have noticed a lone gun? How were they supposed to know he isn’t a light packer who carried his other stuff in a carry on, or perhaps he could have had multiple bags checked, etc. So he was going from Anchorage to Florida one way. He could have been a rich eccentric dude who didn’t know when he wanted to return yet.

Zeroing in on details like that doesn’t make much sense because even if there were clairvoyant people along the way who were able to use some rule to stop him, it’s unlikely someone with a similar idea couldn’t get around such specific rules in the future - aka, buy a 2 way ticket, pack the gun with other items, etc.

As far as the FBI not catching him with all the ISIS talk and other issues, I’m still skeptical as to whether that was due to a lack of laws in that area or if it was laws not being enforced in the best way. The FBI are not mind readers - it’s easy to say, well see, they should have taken the gun - now, after the crime has been committed, but it may not have seemed so clear before. With the domestic violence, that is a touchy issue because to make a change there, you’d have to advocate taking a right away from a citizen without a conviction. Either that or suggest changes to the way that domestic violence is prosecuted in general.