Posted on 01/23/2025 10:28:15 AM PST by McGruff
An armed man from Massachusetts was apprehended by Capitol Police near the Library of Congress after taking a tour of the Capitol the day after the inauguration, authorities revealed.
James Faber, 27, was promptly arrested after authorities found a 9mm handgun “concealed in his waistband.”
They found him while responding to reports of a man with “mental health issues and suicidal thoughts.”
The 27-year-old had been allowed into the Capitol Visitor Center earlier in the day Tuesday prior to being detained, despite magnetometers sounding and an officer conducting a hand search.
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Odd. Pelosi’s Capitol Hill Police are supposed to be the best of anybody at finding armed insurrectionists. /sarchasm
??? Capitol police seem worthless
We need more mental detectors.
The suicidal and delusional (aka “transitioning”) are lethal.
Just how?
Any screening process will have both false positives and failures to detect what is being screened for. Increase the level of screen and you increase the level of false positives. It’s a balance. Many countries don’t screen in the intrusive way we do and have apparently achieved good results. The methodology here was selected by politicians rather than security specialists.
No one noticed “mental health issues” upon screening. They only look at the monitors. No way they interact with the visitors.
“Are” seems the more correct description.
They apparently don’t have the metal detectors set high enough at the Capitol Building. When I was a Correctional Sergeant over 20 years ago, the metal detector we had set up at the gate into the yard could detect a chewing gum paper wrapper that was coated with a thin aluminum layer. We also used hand wands if we couldn’t clear a convict, and lastly used pat frisks if the wand was still set off, before they’d be allowed inside the yard.
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