Due to the draconian Massachusetts gun laws, passed to "make us all safer," there was no possibility that the Security Guards at the targeted mall could have guns. So a van carrying, perhaps, a home-made bomb the likes of which brought down the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, is now lose in New England (or elsewhere).
If this device is used to kill 3,000 Americans somewhere else, will their death certificates read, "DEATH BY POLITICIAN"?
And what was wrong with the Boston police? Why wasn't there an immediate all-points-bulletin issued, and all units respond to the area, to get the van and its occupants? Were the police all in the nearest donut shop with their radios turned off?
The Security Guards handled it as well as they could, considering they were -- like the National Guard in California at L.A. Airport and the Golden Gate Bridge, UNARMED. The Guards had no guns. The National Guard in California has no bullets in their guns.
Which part of the word "War" do some politicians not understand?
Congressman Billybob
Last night on the radio, perhaps ABC, not sure -- I heard a news story that the National Guardsmen patrolling the Golden Gate Bridge have DISTINCT orders to shoot anyone who goes in an off-limits area of the bridge.
There were not any more details, just the briefest of announcements.