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I find the lack of media coverage on this incident eerily quiet. I have yet to hear much from the gun grabbers. I have heard nothing from the race-baiters. Aside from the initial response, even the White House has had little to say. The most recent piece I can find was published 13 hours ago. Most are 2 days old at best. I guess it doesn't fit into their agenda.
Is it because one of the most heavily guarded places in our country was so easily violated because it wasn't so guarded after all? Is it because the government back ground checks, with all of it's intelligence, was unable to safeguard the very people it employs, from one of it's own?
To me, the ability for this DOD "Contractor" to obtain a Secret Clearance, the failure to prosecute him for violent crimes, the failure of the Navy Yard's own Police Department to follow up on information from another law enforcement agency's concerns about his mental health and the fact that he can access this facility with the simple swipe of a card, is an embarrassment.
If the government itself, is unable to keep its own house safe using its own information, just what in the hell do they think "Expanded Background Checks" will do? How many law abiding gun owners will be denied purchases or have that purchase delayed due to an error? Yet someone like this who has clearly been on the radar slips through the cracks? I am unable to obtain a job in our shipyard because my credit score is not good enough for them. I "can't be trusted" and am "likely to steal or be tempted to sell secrets". Yet this guy commits violent felonies with firearms, hears voices, has people "following him" and is "Good to Go"?
This is a prime example of how impotent our government really is. A good friend of mine who is a Command Master Chief in the USCG was in the Navy Yard when this occurred. His children are my students. And I am glad that he was not one of the casualties produced by this incompetence. And I am angry that hard working Americans are dead because of the incompetence. Because for all of its horn tooting, the government was unable to perform the task that it boldly declares it is so masterful at.
It failed to protect its own house. I certainly will not depend on it to protect mine.
Is it because one of the most heavily guarded places in our country was so easily violated because it wasn't so guarded after all? Is it because the government back ground checks, with all of it's intelligence, was unable to safeguard the very people it employs, from one of it's own?
To me, the ability for this DOD "Contractor" to obtain a Secret Clearance, the failure to prosecute him for violent crimes, the failure of the Navy Yard's own Police Department to follow up on information from another law enforcement agency's concerns about his mental health and the fact that he can access this facility with the simple swipe of a card, is an embarrassment.
If the government itself, is unable to keep its own house safe using its own information, just what in the hell do they think "Expanded Background Checks" will do? How many law abiding gun owners will be denied purchases or have that purchase delayed due to an error? Yet someone like this who has clearly been on the radar slips through the cracks? I am unable to obtain a job in our shipyard because my credit score is not good enough for them. I "can't be trusted" and am "likely to steal or be tempted to sell secrets". Yet this guy commits violent felonies with firearms, hears voices, has people "following him" and is "Good to Go"?
This is a prime example of how impotent our government really is. A good friend of mine who is a Command Master Chief in the USCG was in the Navy Yard when this occurred. His children are my students. And I am glad that he was not one of the casualties produced by this incompetence. And I am angry that hard working Americans are dead because of the incompetence. Because for all of its horn tooting, the government was unable to perform the task that it boldly declares it is so masterful at.
It failed to protect its own house. I certainly will not depend on it to protect mine.
