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11-01-2017, 11:16 AM
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Major General 
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Join Date: Nov 2012
Location: Southwest
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Originally Posted by Kev312
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Originally Posted by CTinline-six
The issue is what is included in a background check? I do agree that we are way too PC and it has taken over our ability to separate actual criminals from the masses, but we have to be realistic.
Background checks only account for prior criminal records. Many of these guys were criminally clean, not all, but many. The only thing that stood out was a few social media posts, or friends/people close to them who thought they might be a little strange. None of that can be checked by Home Depot when you rent a truck, or even when you buy a gun. If you have a clean record they don't search through all your Facebook posts and talk to all your friends before letting you buy one.
The terrorists aren't stupid, unfortunately. They aren't going to send some guy on the no-fly list into TSA with a bomb on him, or hit the same place twice. We have to figure out what creates these problems and stop it at the source. Think about how powerful social media agencies like Facebook are for a second, and how they can track information on pretty much everything you post, yet so many radical groups and their members still have the ability to post things and influence others...
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Agreed. A "background check" is a catch all term which may include everything from the obvious prior criminal activity to known associations and political activity. It's never as easy as "a back ground check", however the point I was trying to make was that maybe we should be as circumspect about who we let enter our country as who we hire for a sensitive position, like say a preschool teacher, Boeing engineer, or armed security guard?
Their best weapon is to radicalize those who are already in country or even weak Americans, as we've seen, or maybe run them across our porous southern border.
Like certain groups are prone to say after a mass shooting event, we just need to do more and not be swayed by the emotional arguments. |
Oh - and build a wall.
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