Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: X-Post: "Gun Rights for Terrorists" [View all]Neon Gods
(222 posts)You wrote "What good would even a total prohibition do if someone is prepared to engage in an act of war on US soil? Have terrorists, of any stripe, been thwarted in their ability to gain the weapons of their choosing whether guns, bombs or carpet razors?"
Are you really asking, or are these rhetorical questions?
The White House has a high metal fence around the grounds. After 9/11 they closed the street in front of the White House and installed large barriers to prevent vehicles from crashing through the fence. But the Secret Service knows that if someone wants to badly enough, they can probably still breach all that security. So, because the WH grounds can still be breached if someone is determined was all that security a silly mistake? Should we tear everything down, fire the Secret Service, and save us taxpayers a bunch of money?
Have terrorists been thwarted from gaining weapons and/or harming us? The frustrating thing about prevention, as you know, is that those whose death has been prevented don't generally know their death was prevented. If terrorists have been thwarted we probably don't even know about it.