Quote:Was he here on a student visa? I'm not defending him I'm just pointing out that ending student visas might be counter productive.


The real issue has been our preemptive foreign policy since WW2 that has us interjected into all theses tribal and regional conflicts. Every time we try and fix a mess over here we kick 2 hornets nest over there.


All the safeguards we've established, the NSA bulk collection of data and monitoring social media, the patriots act, the department of homeland security, the TSA, none of them knew this was coming nor was there anything they could do once it started. I guess that's my point we can give government all this authority to protect us but the reality is they can't.


now id agree with an argument that nations deemed hostile towards the US shouldn't be on the visa list but then you have to ask who qualifies hostile or friendly states?

 

The shooter in Chattanooga came here as an infant, and was a naturalized citizen. According to the latest reports he has been traveling back and forth between the U.S. and Middle East locations the past two years. Dots can be connected, but it's too early to say definitively he was recruited by ISIS, in particular, but judging from statements made by those who knew him, something about him changed radically. Pun intended.

 

You are right, unless we become the type of country The Drifter seems to want us to be, attacks like the one in Chattanooga are nearly impossible to prevent.

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