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1. Inactive
   BrentB67

   @BrentB67

   4:45 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Fake John/Jane Galt:It is sad that we will never know the motives on why these random people, killed other random people, for unknown and unknowable random reason, in this random country.

   I am confident we know all of those things.

   If only France had a few common sense gun laws this tragedy would have been avoided. I hope Obama speaks soon since he is our best hope for communicating with random killers. Maybe there will be a funeral that he can turn into a political rally so he can shame the GOP, NRA, white Americans, etc, again. Possibly there is a YouTube video that caused this whole sorry mess.

2. Thatcher
   Blondie

   @Blondie

   5:32 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Metalheaddoc:

   DocJay:When you boil the Koran down to its literal meanings you get this act. The peaceful majorities just ignore the parts where the book says to kill enslave tax or convert the infidel. The peaceful ignore those critical parts because most people are inherently good. The book itself is a poison though and it’s followers need to defile the book’s instructions to never change it. A contradiction that cannot be fixed.

   This century sees the death of hundreds of millions of Muslims or the end of Western civilization. Time will tell but when the winds blew, Obama stood with Islam. Never forget that history book writers.

   4 more years of letting this be the norm? Have at it but do own it. To vote for Hillary is to consider this act the price of business.

   Hillary delenda est.

   With more and more attacks, I am thinking that Islam really is the problem. Maybe the “moderate” Muslims that aren’t Jihad-ing are just half-assing their religion. Who is really perverting Islam? The Jihadis or the going-thru-the-motions secular Muslims who kinda-sorta do Islam when it’s not too much trouble.

   I have heard it said they are waiting for critical mass (as in numbers). I agree with you, Metalheaddoc, one group or the other is perverting their “religion”.

3. Contributor
   Kevin Creighton

   @KevinCreighton

   6:21 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   The Question:

   Marion Evans:Making all the talk about banning guns even more irrelevant.

   Yes. I’m not an expert on guns, but it occurs to me that if you want to reliably take down a specific person, the options are limited, and a gun is by far the best way to go. If you just want to indiscriminately kill a lot of people, there is a much wider range of methods available.

   I’ll write a post about this for the main feed on the weekend, but Mark James runs an executive protection service, and he spoke with Josh Gideon of No Soft Targets radio last week. On that podcast, Mark lays out, as clear as a bell, what he’s worried about when he has to guard someone who might be going into harm’s way. Gun control (or the lack thereof) was NOT on the list.

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   Kozak

   @Kozak

   

   6:49 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Franco:

   Frozen Chosen:ISIS and their adherents are nothing more than a godless murder cult. They are bloodthirsty savages who deserve no quarter. The US and our allies should do all we can to exterminate them.

   This description does not extend to all of Islam, however. I have many Muslim friends who are as horrified by these atrocities as anyone else. They are peaceful people who just want to live their lives. They are not responsible for these murders any more than all Christians are responsible for pedophile priests. We need to make that distinction.

   Your first paragraph was sufficient and clear, why do you feel a need to include this disclaimer/lecture?

   We can’t fight this phenomenon by lecturing to each other or preemptively apologizing. If someone misunderstands clear communication, it’s their fault and their problem.

   Except the FBI has stated they get next to no help from the ” moderate Muslims” . Ultimately this is THEIR problem.

5. Inactive
   Richard Fulmer

   @RichardFulmer

   7:22 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   We must all stop to check our privileges so that we may divine what we’ve done to trigger this act, which was clearly a cry of desperation from the depths of the evil pit created by western civilization.

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   Eustace C. Scrubb

   @EustaceCScrubb

   7:28 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Maybe this will finally wake people up to the culpability of  the NRA…. Sorry, wrong talking point.

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   Isaac Smith

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   7:30 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Marion Evans:Making all the talk about banning guns even more irrelevant.

   Not irrelevant, just not enough.  Large trucks are clearly very dangerous and should be strictly regulated.  And there’s not even an amendment that says you have a right to keep and drive vehicles of any size, let alone large lorries. </sarc>  (really sad I felt the need to add that.)

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   Isaac Smith

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   7:45 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Boss Mongo:Um, can I start profiling now?

   Heh, like anyone here believes you are just thinking about this now.

9. Member
   Annefy

   @Annefy

   7:47 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

   Annefy:

   Douglas:By the way, here’s my easy peasy guaranteezy prediction: nothing will change. No Western government will change refugee or immigration policies from the Muslim world. None will state that Islam is a faith of war. All will punish citizens that dare call a spade a spade. All will compensate for “increased terror threats” by putting military vets on terrorism watchlists and making more old nuns take off their shoes at airports. The Southern Poverty Law Center will send out flyers decrying “Islamaphobia, and tell you the REAL threat is that white Southern guy with a gun rack in his truck window. Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along.

   I expect a post on the Main Feed hitting these highlights by this time tomorrow. For didn’t someone say that Islam couldn’t be a faith of war, ipso facto we’d all be dead?

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    Mike LaRoche

    @MikeLaRoche

    7:50 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

    Savages. All of them.

11. Member
    Bob W

    @WBob

    8:26 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

    Douglas:By the way, here’s my easy peasy guaranteezy prediction: nothing will change. No Western government will change refugee or immigration policies from the Muslim world. None will state that Islam is a faith of war. All will punish citizens that dare call a spade a spade. All will compensate for “increased terror threats” by putting military vets on terrorism watchlists and making more old nuns take off their shoes at airports. The Southern Poverty Law Center will send out flyers decrying “Islamaphobia, and tell you the REAL threat is that white Southern guy with a gun rack in his truck window. Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along.

    Not to mention the instinctive reaction for a military response will always accompany every attack: (e.g.”A Tunisian with a French work permit kills 80 in France… Let’s go bomb Syria!” )

12. Member
    MarciN

    @MarciN

    9:31 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

    This is truly horrifying, the latest news on the Paris Bataclan attacks. This really is evil unleashed. Apparently the attackers tortured their victims in brutal and barbaric ways. It was so bad that the police didn’t want to let the family members see the victims.

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    Arthur Beare

    @ArthurBeare

    10:25 AM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

    I’ve noticed that words to the effect that the perpetrator was”known to the authorities/security services” keep popping up in reports from the continent.

    I realize that very few of the people “known to the authorities” actually go on to commit terrorist acts,  but when is the public going to demand much more aggressive monitoring/containment of such people, civil liberty concerns be dammed?

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    Bishop Wash

    @BishopWash

    8:51 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

    Kozak:

    Franco:

    Frozen Chosen:ISIS and their adherents are nothing more than a godless murder cult. They are bloodthirsty savages who deserve no quarter. The US and our allies should do all we can to exterminate them.

    This description does not extend to all of Islam, however. I have many Muslim friends who are as horrified by these atrocities as anyone else. They are peaceful people who just want to live their lives. They are not responsible for these murders any more than all Christians are responsible for pedophile priests. We need to make that distinction.

    Your first paragraph was sufficient and clear, why do you feel a need to include this disclaimer/lecture?

    We can’t fight this phenomenon by lecturing to each other or preemptively apologizing. If someone misunderstands clear communication, it’s their fault and their problem.

    Except the FBI has stated they get next to no help from the ” moderate Muslims” . Ultimately this is THEIR problem.

    This interesting article claims that when we do get informants and if they’re found out they are convinced to commit suicide attacks to expiate their sins. “The terrorists, in short, are winning the intelligence war, because they have shaped the environment in which intelligence is gathered and traded.” To change this, the author postulates getting tough with the Muslim community and frighten them so badly to cause them to inform on family and friends.

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    ET

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    9:43 PM EDT ⋅ Jul 15, 2016

    I lived one block from the Trade Center in NYC and enjoyed several  fine vacations at Hotel Negresco sur la Promenade des Anglais. I’m not sure how many times my heart can break.