Odder reactions alongside the obvious ones:
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Opening fire on a military base sounds like a classic instance of attempting suicide-by-police.
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“Well, at least it’s arguably a military target rather than civilian.”
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The fact that this sort of thing has stopped being especially surprising is a Very Bad Thing.
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If you want to scare yourself sane about what’s happening with many flavors of extremism in America, I strongly recommend getting hold of a copy of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Report newsletter.
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This is what Homeland (in)Security should be worrying about. Unfortunately their real purpose is to maintain a state of terror rather than to actually prevent attacks from happening. The fact that they caved to political pressure rather than defending their monitoring of radical groups inside the US was typical.
(Actually, Homeland Security should be disbanded and their resources returned to groups like the FBI which have a history of actually getting something useful done.)
