Originally Posted by
idriveuride
With the recent extremely sad events in Moscow we should pause and support security initiatives of our nation.
We forget that events such as these have happened MANY times throughout the world .. Rome, Vienna, Madrid, Glasgow immediately come to mind. Yet it remains shocking as it is "over there", not here.
Rep. Giffords shooting in AZ
Oklahoma Federal Building bombing
Anthrax attacks
DC Snipers
Columbine High School
Fort Hood Shooting
WTC truck bombing
1996 ATL Olympics bombing
The reaction to those and many others did not result in a trampling of the Constitution and waste of billions upon billions of dollars. As long as there are people, there will be people that want to do harm to others.
Screening is not the answer - intellegence is. If a bomb gets to the airport, or on the subway, or in a car, it is already too late. Take half the funding of TSA and give it to intellegence agencies to disrupt plots (within the bounds of the Constitution) BEFORE the bomb even gets made. Take the other half and install guardrails on thousands of miles of rural highways to prevent median cross-over collisions. That will save thousands more lives than the TSA ever will.