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beardown

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1. I've been wondering about this myself.
Sun Nov 22, 2015, 08:17 PM
Nov 2015

Some of my family members were looking into the plastic paper and duct tape and buying a couple of packaged sandwiches during the terror scares of a few years ago. Now thanks to Bush the Stupid's invasion of Iraq and other major blunders we've got major terrorist attacks going off around the world. I think it's a small jump from duct tape to CC given Americans may finally be realizing that they are now extremely less safe from terrorism than they were before multiple invasions, regime changes, and constant drone killings in the ME.

I'm thinking many more people are going to start thinking that having more 'militia' type armed citizens will make them safer from ISIS.

Training and safety standards and programs are going to have to be ramped up to provide more security as opposed to more random shootings of anyone unfortunate enough to look Muslim. However, in a broad response to increased terrorism, reducing the number of soft targets is a good thing, but I have little confidence in the government supporting this well, at least over the short term.

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