Posted December 17, 2015 12:10 pm by Comments

By Brent Wheat

terrorist attacks

According to a recent poll by McLaughlin & Associates, 74% percent of American’s believe there will be more terrorist attacks on U.S. soil. Sadly, for these three-fourths of our population who are realistic about the current situation in the world, they are almost undoubtedly correct.

It’s too bad our President doesn’t seem to share their same sense of urgency.

The problem with terrorist attacks isn’t our response after the fact. Virtually any authority on the matter will tell you that on-the-ground reaction by emergency services to such events has gotten much better since 9/11. Moreover, those investigating the attack have an array of tools at their disposal that weren’t even a science-fiction fantasy when the author began his law enforcement career in the 1980’s.

Thus, in the aftermath, we save many lives and quickly figure out who conducted an attack. Unfortunately, our ability to prevent such incidents hasn’t been perfect (and likely will never be in an open and mostly-free society). Regardless, until there is a tectonic social and political shift, terrorist attacks are likely a growing, rather than decreasing, threat.

Terrorists aren’t stupid. They are certainly misguided, evil perhaps, but there is no lack of intellectual capacity …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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