CNN Terrorism Expert: We Wouldn't Expect Terrorist Attacks in Shopping Malls

Explaining, expertly, why military recruiting stations are gun-free zones.

No terrorists have ever attacked a shopping mall.

Such things just don't happen.

Posted by: Ace at 04:59 PM

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1 That's EXACTLY where I'd expect one!!
*dumbasses*

Posted by: Becky at July 16, 2015 05:00 PM (kj0P/)

2 I'VE NEVER BEEN FIRST OMG OMG I'M DYING

Posted by: Becky at July 16, 2015 05:00 PM (kj0P/)

3 Hey, that's our line!

Posted by: #VoxTakes at July 16, 2015 05:00 PM (ZtFr+)

4 Where the heck is everybody?

Posted by: Becky at July 16, 2015 05:00 PM (kj0P/)

5 We tried terror attacks on military FOBs. That didn't work out so well for us.

Posted by: ISIS at July 16, 2015 05:01 PM (LAe3v)

6 Weapons-grade stupid.

Posted by: I. Dindoo Nuffin at July 16, 2015 05:01 PM (5fSr7)

7 erm...was the arkansas recruiting office shootup a few years ago in a mall type setting?

Posted by: Phil at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (39FGM)

8 This assurance from an expert might mean more if the word they most often use is 'unexpectedly' when reality gives lie to their supposed knowledge.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (F9322)

9 Soft targets are soft. This "expert" is a hack. We will see a massive, complex attack at a mall - during the holidays. It's not a matter of if, but when.

Posted by: GrJ at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (EDwMQ)

10 I guess she's just summing up the Obama Doctrine

Posted by: Arcadehero at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (xOH0X)

11 * CNN facepalm

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/17/world/africa/kenya-mall-attack-footage/

Posted by: Foghorn Leghorn at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (UhRGU)

12 Has someone explained the rules about First Comment and Prima Nocta to you?

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (LAe3v)

13 Would recruiter get in trouble if he had his Beretta in his desk drawer?

Posted by: Cruzinator at July 16, 2015 05:02 PM (4SgJh)

14 Nobody expects 19 maniacs armed with box cutters to crash planes into buildings either.

Posted by: Kreplach at July 16, 2015 05:03 PM (bywZ6)

15 *facepalm*

Posted by: Grump928(c) at July 16, 2015 05:04 PM (evdj2)

16 Christ.

That's the first place I'd attack if I were a terrorist. Easy pickings + maximum terror.

Posted by: Warden at July 16, 2015 05:04 PM (wHAYQ)

17 "Killing innocent people is the last thing you'd expect a terrorist to do!"

Posted by: Warden at July 16, 2015 05:04 PM (wHAYQ)

18 Ah, the Pentagon will have to rethink their rules about carrying. Not Obama, not the Dems, the Pentagon. Yes, I'm sure it was their idea.

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:05 PM (LAe3v)

19 At least we know they'd never attack a beach resort.

Posted by: gewa76 at July 16, 2015 05:05 PM (S9rS1)

20 She's wrong about the posse comitatus law too.

Posted by: I. Dindoo Nuffin at July 16, 2015 05:05 PM (5fSr7)

21 That's the first place I'd attack if I were a terrorist. Easy pickings + maximum terror.

I'd probably snipe people at random as they gassed up their cars or came out of stores.

Wait ...

Posted by: Grump928(c) at July 16, 2015 05:05 PM (evdj2)

22 I'm so old, I remember when U.S. shopping malls used to get shot up a couple times a year by individual wackos (seems to be less often now that states are letting people carry more). Even if you're completely ignorant of Nigeria (so, most Americans), it shouldn't be real hard to imagine that a group of people can shoot up the same places a single person can.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (ZKzrr)

23 Ladies and Gentlemen,

I give you Your Betters (tm) ~!

#TheyKnowShit

Posted by: weft cut-loop at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (VY8H5)

24 I expect the shooter is a member of the Tea Party.

Posted by: Brian Ross at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (GMQML)

25 I'VE NEVER BEEN FIRST OMG OMG I'M DYING

4 Marines dead.

Posted by: cind at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (nRbbW)

26 Everyplace is a soft target in a civilized society except a gun range and even there a crazy person can kill a Navy Seal.

Posted by: Cruzinator at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (4SgJh)

27 It's because islamic terrorists have a deep abiding respect for American capitalism you guys. Also, they would never think of attacking a gun-free place that civilians gather in large groups. That would be unsporting.

Posted by: Heralder at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (ECROs)

28 Yeah, malls are totes safe.

Just ask the folks at Westgate Mall, Nairobi, Nigeria.

Or the folks at the Tacoma Mall, Tacoma, Washington.

Jeebus Frickin' Christ, do these journalists have the awareness of an amoeba?

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (o0nNm)

29 Yes, well CNN you may have been right ..... But after the Confederate flag was banned, society just does not know what to expect next.

Posted by: The roost aint what it used to be at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (7GI9v)

30 CNN is trying to corner the market on stoopid.

Posted by: maddogg at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (xWW96)

31 STOP TALKING.

Can't they just show a test pattern between eyewitness reports or something?

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:07 PM (p7ckx)

32 19
At least we know they'd never attack a beach resort.

Posted by: gewa76

I guess pizza places are right out. And delis.

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:07 PM (LAe3v)

33 Jewish Food Marts are safe.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at July 16, 2015 05:07 PM (evdj2)

34

seriously

I would like to air drop all these experts in to Syria, with the media, so they can get some learning

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:08 PM (zOTsN)

35 Another place terrorists would never attack are marathons. Please don't worry.

Posted by: Heralder at July 16, 2015 05:08 PM (ECROs)

36

CNN: not paying attention to world events since, forever.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:08 PM (qCMvj)

37 Oh shit that mall attack was in Kenya. Not Nigeria. I guess I should have looked at ace's links. But I remembered the attack independently of ace's reminder.

Posted by: GnuBreed at July 16, 2015 05:08 PM (o0nNm)

38 They are called soft targets for a reason. Reinforcing that idea happens to be that notorious "Gun Free Zone" sign we have hanging everywhere.

The stupid - I wish it would hurt more.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:08 PM (DlmoZ)

39 Jeebus Frickin' Christ, do these journalists have the awareness of an amoeba?

Posted by: GnuBreed

No, we're aware of our surroundings. We find food, ingest it by pseudopoda, locomote, you name it. Can't say the same for journalists.

Posted by: Amoebas at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (LAe3v)

40 Herridge says they are very very concerned about more immediate attacks on US military facilities

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (zOTsN)

41 From the shooter's name I'm guessing its a muzzie shithead, amirite?

Posted by: @votermom at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (cbfNE)

42 On Fox, Shep couldn't figure out why Marines would be in a facility run by the Navy...

Posted by: Mike in Jersey at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (yFzX9)

43

Mall of America, never mentioned before.

Evah, says CNN.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (qCMvj)

44
35
Another place terrorists would never attack are marathons. Please don't worry.

ROTFLMAO

Posted by: ISIS at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (p7ckx)

45 She starts with a argument that is at least not totes crazy:

The US typically doesn't have armed military walking around the streets.
Again, defensible to a point. We aren't a banana republic (yet) where the military maintains peace all the time with guns.

That being said, that sorta conflates two issues. Yeah, we don't have military carrying M16's around town, but we have tons of people (cops, CCW holders, private security) who carry side arms all the time. There's no reason the military should be any different in that regards.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (hhQEJ)

46 Oh shit that mall attack was in Kenya. Not Nigeria.

Oh hell.

The rest of my earlier comment is still right, though.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (ZKzrr)

47 41 From the shooter's name I'm guessing its a muzzie shithead, amirite?
Posted by: @votermom at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (cbfNE)

Amish.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (2Ojst)

48 41 From the shooter's name I'm guessing its a muzzie shithead, amirite?
Posted by: @votermom at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (cbfNE)

That would be correct.

Posted by: maddogg at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (xWW96)

49 This Is CNN.

Heh

Posted by: anon a mouse at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (uiVGU)

50 Pics of islamic terrorist, murderer
http://preview.tinyurl.com/nzbwx3a

Posted by: Hillary! at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (9mTYi)

51

While SCOAMF yucks it up with illegals in prison.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (qCMvj)

52
Do you know why Muslim jihadists are attacking military targets here?

I hope you all know, but do you??

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (cdFPO)

53 Workplace.
Violence.

Posted by: shibumi who is awash in existential dread at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (9KToF)

54 You know why terrorists won't attack shopping malls? Chaplinsky!!!!11!!11!1!

Posted by: Chris Cuomo at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (+PZZh)

55 Egads. When will this violence in the workplace ever stop?

Posted by: Hank at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (hA1uV)

56 42 Please tell me you are kidding.

Our country is definitely screwed.

Put a fork in it, burn it down, salt the earth.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (DlmoZ)

57

LET THEM CARRY

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (zOTsN)

58 Reposting from last thread

CNN National Security Advisor- "You wouldn't expect terror to take place at a shopping mall.">>>

Yes there is no precedent for that type of thing happening anywhere.

In other news the Westgate mall is reopening in Kenya.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/ngvnkfy

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (81UWZ)

59 The media will say anything to provide spin or cover for their empty suit emperor.

Even turn on one of their own (Major Garrett is raaacist for asking EarLeader a hard question about armericans left to rot in Iran even as they are given everything they wanted in that so called deal)

What saddens me is that 90% or more of the LIVs just soak up the lies like a sponge and dutifully release them when squeezed.

Posted by: PaleRider at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (dkExz)

60 The US typically doesn't have armed military walking around the streets.

Again, defensible to a point. We aren't a banana republic (yet) where the military maintains peace all the time with guns.

What she said is we aren't like Latin America. You know, those violent, corrupt people to the South. It sounds like she'll be voting for Trump.

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (LAe3v)

61 Not much you can do do stop someone, expected or not, from stopping in front of your storefront and shooting through the windows.

I'm as pissed about this as anyone.. and maybe they will put bulletproof glass in other recruiting stations and/or security at the front door.

Jesus.. But I guess they will label this workplace violence, huh?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (so+oy)

62 You know where else I would never expect terrorism, a military base, a school, a mall, a disco, a restaurant or resort or hotel, I mean any place there is larger gatherigns of people is the LAST place I would expect something like that to happen.

Posted by: Terror Expert at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (cYXYO)

63
From the shooter's name I'm guessing its a muzzie shithead, amirite?

Tell me what you think of the name barack hussein obama?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:12 PM (cdFPO)

64 The US typically doesn't have armed military walking around the streets.

Again, defensible to a point. We aren't a banana republic (yet) where the military maintains peace all the time with guns.

But the military do not give up their rights as citizens to keep and bear arms.

One Marine or soldier or sailor with a .45 pistol.... dammit I'm pissed off again.

This gunfreezone blah blah bullshit has got to stop.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:12 PM (p7ckx)

65 How exactly did she become known as a terrorism "expert"?

Posted by: rickl at July 16, 2015 05:12 PM (zoehZ)

66 On Fox, Shep couldn't figure out why Marines would be in a facility run by the Navy...
Posted by: Mike in Jersey at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (yFzX9)
---
Shep's only frame of reverence is the gentlemen's club Dive, Ensign, Dive on 42nd Street.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, Literate Savage at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (jR7Wy)

67 63
From the shooter's name I'm guessing its a muzzie shithead, amirite?

Tell me what you think of the name barack hussein obama?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:12 PM (cdFPO)

Muzzie shithead?

Posted by: just saying at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (wkuqO)

68 The US typically doesn't have armed military walking around the streets.

Again, defensible to a point. We aren't a banana republic (yet) where the military maintains peace all the time with guns.

That being said, that sorta conflates two issues. Yeah, we don't
have military carrying M16's around town, but we have tons of people
(cops, CCW holders, private security) who carry side arms all the time.
There's no reason the military should be any different in that regards.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (hhQEJ)
The Zuerich train station during the summer crawls with guys walking around with no shit assault rifles and various automatic weapons, going out for their annual training. And Switzerland is about as far from a banana republic as there is.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (oKE6c)

69 No one expected the 3-time bank robber to rob another bank.

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (VY8H5)

70 From the shooter's name I'm guessing its a muzzie shithead, amirite?

Tell me what you think of the name barack hussein obama?

Indeed.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (p7ckx)

71 Fox News caption: "US officials to determine if this was domestic terror attack."

Clue bat, meet head.

Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (MHV+V)

72 Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:11 PM (LAe3v)

Having spent some time in Latin America, it's at least accurate. Guys carrying AK-47s were the norm. Luckily they liked us.

Although I'm not sure her application of Posse Comatus is right.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (hhQEJ)

73 A mall is far more likely to disappear into a black hole than be attcked by terrorists.
#Science!

Posted by: Don Lemon at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (t2xH3)

74 And Switzerland is about as far from a banana republic as there is.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (oKE6c)

It's a precision watch and fine chocolate republic.

Posted by: Insomniac at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (2Ojst)

75 If only there was some way to identify potential terrorists, and keep them out of the country..., some identifying quality.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (9mTYi)

76 My advice to all of you -
Get some protection. Whatever you are comfortable carrying/possessing/using. Get trained. Now. Get your CCW NOW. Remember: CANT - carry always, never tell.

We are responsible for our own safety. Those given the responsibility to protect us are prohibited from doing so.

Those four Marines (RIP) didn't wake up this morning thinking today they were going to get shot at. And neither will any of us.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (DlmoZ)

77 I'm pretty sure Mohammad was just upset about the Iran deal and how Kerry and Berry expertly outmaneuvered those crazy mullahs.

Posted by: Fritz at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (UzPAd)

78
Muzzie shithead?

Indubitably.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (cdFPO)

79 56. Not kidding. One of the Fox guests had to explain it to Shep...

Posted by: Mike in Jersey at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (yFzX9)

80 We'd like to interrupt on non-reportage of the Planned Parenthood/Harvesting Baby Parts story to NOT report on the this story. We will now resume with our 14-part miniseries: Caitlyn Jenner- Profiles in Courage and Perfection.

Posted by: MSM at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (7RXcs)

81 You know, no one has ever hijacked a plane and flown it into a building before. I think you can safely put chances of that at zero.

Terrorism expert, 9/10/01

Posted by: Jollyroger at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (t06LC)

82 Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:13 PM (oKE6c)

Fair enough point. Although we don't use the military for domestic security either (national guard excluded.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (hhQEJ)

83 50
Pics of islamic terrorist, murderer

http://preview.tinyurl.com/nzbwx3a

Posted by: Hillary!

Judging from his mug shot, he's a total Gaylord. NTTAWWT

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (LAe3v)

84 I welcum mai noo overlords!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: Cicero Boom chicka boom Kaboom! Kid at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (NtqcO)

85 Christ.

That's the first place I'd attack if I were a terrorist. Easy pickings + maximum terror.

Posted by: Warden at July 16, 2015 05:04 PM (wHAYQ)

Yep, malls, sporting event venues, bridges during rush hour traffic. Seem like no-brainers to me, but we have always known these people aren't the brightest.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (TOk1P)

86 77 I'm pretty sure Mohammad was just upset about the Iran deal and how Kerry and Berry expertly outmaneuvered those crazy mullahs.
Posted by: Fritz at July 16, 2015 05:14 PM (UzPAd)

By "outmaneuvered" you must mean "bent over and took it up the ass from."

Posted by: Insomniac at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (2Ojst)

87

France last summer

I saw Gendarmes armed to the teeth

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (zOTsN)

88 WTF?

Posted by: Zombie Tom Clancy at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (61JYR)

89 Well you know. They have 24 hours to fill and gotta talk to fill it. So you get a lot of teh stupid. First time I noticed this was during Desert Storm. CNN had lots of coverage but I noticed that they not only repeated themselves a lot, but had nothing useful to say for long periods of time. And as it turned out, a lot of what they said was abject nonsense, invention, and stupid rumors.

I also discovered that you can betray your country repeatedly and the worst you face is losing your job, if you're a reporter (looking at you, Geraldo Rivera and Peter Arnett).

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (39g3+)

90 America Falling

Posted by: Kindofa Dick (@DicksTrash) at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (q20+R)

91 You send fucking Muslims to the international space station and you can expect terror attacks in space. The stupidity burns strong and bright with the leftard.

Posted by: maddogg at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (xWW96)

92 They need to allow anyone with base access and a CCW to carry concealed on a military base, and anyone on active duty to carry openly, especially when on duty.

There are many bases with huge civilian workforces that are all security cleared, but can't even keep something in their vehicles.

Posted by: SARDiver at July 16, 2015 05:15 PM (DzJBg)

93 They are targets

they should be able to carry at work

to defend themselves

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:16 PM (zOTsN)

94 It is a well-known fact that terrorists always attack exactly the same targets in exactly the same way every time.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:16 PM (oKE6c)

95 There is no reason DoD policy should preclude an otherwise qualified E-5 or above from maintaining a concealed firearm. Esp. for those facilities without comprehensive force protection postures.

I could be persuaded to go down to E-3 or above.

Posted by: Jean at July 16, 2015 05:16 PM (ztOda)

96 he attended high school in Chattanooga

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:17 PM (zOTsN)

97
"Muslims are like pitbulls. All of them are savages capable of doing you harm, but most won't kill you, only a relative few."

-- Shih Tzu

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:17 PM (cdFPO)

98 Well, I don't have to worry about a terrorist attack on a shopping mall. Most of the major malls around me in Northern NJ are loaded with burquas and niquab-clad Muslims.....

(whew)

Posted by: JoeF. at July 16, 2015 05:17 PM (oUhK/)

99 Yes yes, she is smart woman. You listen to her you stay safe. Peace!

Posted by: Muhammad Bakr Al BagFatAss at July 16, 2015 05:17 PM (+PZZh)

100 Born in Kuwait in 1990.

Posted by: Lady in Black....sigh at July 16, 2015 05:17 PM (MHV+V)

101 link didn't work for me

Posted by: just saying at July 16, 2015 05:18 PM (wkuqO)

102 A stolen box truck full of explosives in a major auto tunnel would be bad. How many ways are there into Gotham?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at July 16, 2015 05:18 PM (evdj2)

103 Having spent some time in Latin America, it's at least accurate. Guys carrying AK-47s were the norm. Luckily they liked us.

Ditto. Italians (the Carabinieri) also carry serious weaponry. According to the CNN "expert", it seems they're all just greasy wops or taco-wops.

Every day, I drive through a gate manned by guards with guns. It doesn't concern me in the least. It makes sense, and they're there for a purpose.

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:18 PM (LAe3v)

104 To me ANY gun free zone is a helpless target zone. When was the last time a NON GUN frees zone was attacked by terrorist on US soil????

Posted by: lindafell de Spair at July 16, 2015 05:18 PM (xVgrA)

105

Muslims have zero problem killing other muslims

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:19 PM (zOTsN)

106

Where's the picture of JEF ("reading a book") to prisoners while our Marines are being gunned down?

Where's that photo op of the _______?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:19 PM (qCMvj)

107 Yes, because if there's one thing that ISIS has shown us, they are very strict and regimented in their attacks, and they sent out very specific instructions with a narrow list of options to jihadi-wannabes in the U.S.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2015 05:19 PM (NOIQH)

108 I could be persuaded to go down to E-3 or above.

I would be fine with anyone out of boot camp getting a sidearm. They qualified, they are able to fire a gun in anger. They are troops. We trust that buck private with rocket launchers and grenades, but we can't trust him with a pistol to defend himself? Cops don't even get as much training with firearms as a soldier or a marine.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:19 PM (39g3+)

109 The most dangerous scenario to which I repeated expose myself to is not occasional travel to bad places overseas -- its sitting in traffic jams outside of DC area facilities surrounded by retired and active members of the our armed forces. All disarmed by policy.

When, if I were simply headed up the road, I would be able to respond.

Posted by: Jean at July 16, 2015 05:19 PM (ztOda)

110 Maybe the recent SCOTUS ruling mandating same-sex marriage set this guy off...

Posted by: JoeF. at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (oUhK/)

111 This is CNN.

They got this "expert" out of a gumball machine.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (bLnSU)

112 We didn't expect the cannibal to take up our offer to give him a hand.

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (VY8H5)

113 What weapon did the shooter use? Has it been reported?

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (4SgJh)

114
Okay I'll tell you.

The reason that muslim jihadists are attacking militarty targets in the U.S. is because MUSLIMS ARE AT WAR WITH THE USA.

When are we gonna acknowledge this FACT?

And also the Left is at war with the USA.

It's time to accept this reality and deal with it properly.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (cdFPO)

115 Tell me what you think of the name barack hussein obama?
Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:12 PM (cdFPO)

*spits*

Posted by: @votermom at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (cbfNE)

116 Wouldn't expect Japanese in Pearl Harbor. Or Germans in Poland. Let's be realistic here.

Posted by: WTP at July 16, 2015 05:20 PM (F26eZ)

117 Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:18 PM (LAe3v

Hell at my old job you had to badge in at a desk staffed by our campus public safety. It only bothered me because I'm fairly certain their training was shitty.

I'm not opposed to guards, I could also see why one might say "we don't need to staff this recruiting station with armed guards" just from a risk standpoint (it does seem low risk.)

Why the military can't carry a side arm when they want (like cops do all the time.) is beyond me.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:21 PM (hhQEJ)

118 There are police all around us, all of them with at least one pistol. We're comfortable with that, its even comforting sometimes to have them and know they have the gun. But not soldiers??

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:21 PM (39g3+)

119 Cnn has only one kind of expert. Experts in cognitive dissonance.

Posted by: maddogg at July 16, 2015 05:21 PM (xWW96)

120 Hmmm, Kuwait. I really expected a black guy who found islam relatively recently.

Posted by: BurtTC at July 16, 2015 05:21 PM (TOk1P)

121 Who could have predicted that journalism majors have no knowledge of anything in particular?

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:21 PM (VY8H5)

122 WTH could THIS Cnt know about 'national security'???

She's never been in uniform (police, military or otherwise) and is just a freakin' LAWYER...

No wonder she blabbers nuclear-grade stupid things like 'we'd never expect this in a shopping mall'

WTF? Put her in charge of a FOB over in AFG. See if that doesn't show her where and who gets targeted.

JEEBUS. SO much stupid in this.

Posted by: Mr Wolf at July 16, 2015 05:22 PM (cjgnX)

123 Perhaps something went wrong with our air traffic control systems?

Posted by: WTP at July 16, 2015 05:22 PM (q/kmn)

124 there is more armed secuirty in the Galleria than there is at a recruiting station

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:22 PM (zOTsN)

125
"The world would be a better place without pitbulls...or Muslims."

-- Shih Tzu

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:22 PM (cdFPO)

126 >>The reason that muslim jihadists are attacking militarty targets in the U.S. is because MUSLIMS ARE AT WAR WITH THE USA.

When are we gonna acknowledge this FACT?

This.
And they have repeatedly threatened to attack military members and their wives here in America. It's not like these guys are all that secretive.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2015 05:22 PM (NOIQH)

127 You just wouldn't expect a cow on a dairy farm.

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:22 PM (Dwehj)

128

So many terrorist attacks since TFG become potus.

So many.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:23 PM (qCMvj)

129 NY Slime commenters? It's the guns fault! Guns Guns Guns!

Religion of Peace? Nah, it's the GUNS.

Posted by: Nip Sip at July 16, 2015 05:23 PM (0FSuD)

130 you know, weaselzippers had an item in which they noted that (the headline)
"Islamic State Account Tweets Warnings About Chattanooga Moments Before Shooting Began"

Posted by: mallfly at July 16, 2015 05:23 PM (qSIlh)

131 Hell at my old job you had to badge in at a desk staffed by our campus
public safety. It only bothered me because I'm fairly certain their
training was shitty.

Agreed. I had a qualm or two back when they were rent-a-cops. The privates in military fatigues - no problem. They're also a hell of a lot more polite and professional.

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (LAe3v)

132

Now that our intelligence, our military, our diplomats are all outed via the hack, it's only going to get worse.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (qCMvj)

133 Yo!

Posted by: Yo! at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (q+zA9)

134 this is the european model for growing jihadis

parents immigrate

go on public assistance

never assimilate

their fucked up spawn attack

all the attacks in England and France are like this

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (zOTsN)

135
111
This is CNN.

They got this "expert" out of a gumball machine.

Nice work, honey. Might wanna wipe your mouth.

How would you like to be a "National Security Analyst"?

/CNN Producer

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (p7ckx)

136
It's not like these guys are all secretive.

Not at all! They are shouting it from the rooftops. Death To America!

They mean it!!

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (cdFPO)

137 Ron Paul fans at a headshop?

Totes unexpected.

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (VY8H5)

138

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:24 PM (p7ckx)

139 You know where else terrorists would never attack?

Posted by: Beslan at July 16, 2015 05:25 PM (8ZskC)

140 109 My husband and I both work aboard a Marine Corps air station - can't carry a firearm aboard base at all unless it's registered with PMO, and can't carry concealed AT ALL. Didn't worry me at all until the Navy Yard shooting...now, I kinda wish I could fit my AR in my lunchbox.

Posted by: antisocialist at July 16, 2015 05:25 PM (eGr8Z)

141 Now that our intelligence, our military, our diplomats are all outed via the hack, it's only going to get worse.

Yeah that's a disturbing thought. The homes and families of everyone who's ever taken a security exam and been government vetted are in the hands of our enemies now.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:25 PM (39g3+)

142 You just wouldn't expect CNN to put an incompetent boob on the air.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 16, 2015 05:25 PM (81UWZ)

143 Wasn't there a shopping mall in Africa that had the shit shot out of it by terrorists.

Shopping malls are one of the most anticipated targets.

Many people, many entrances, many exits.

If you want to kill a lot of people, besides a public school, malls are the way to go.

Except for maybe movie theaters.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (VPLuQ)

144
Yeah that's a disturbing thought. The homes and families of
everyone who's ever taken a security exam and been government vetted are
in the hands of our enemies now.

And our fingerprints.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (p7ckx)

145 118
There are police all around us, all of them with at least one pistol.
We're comfortable with that, its even comforting sometimes to have them
and know they have the gun.

Correct, they are around us. But how long until the respond on scene? My house was broken into last year. Nobody was home at the time, but it took the police 33 minutes to arrive - in an area of 35k people less than 6 miles outside of town.

I'm not knocking the police at all. Truly respect them and the job they do (minus the handful of bad apples). But they aren't there to protect you.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (DlmoZ)

146 A stolen box truck full of explosives in a major auto tunnel would be bad. How many ways are there into Gotham?

Posted by: Grump928(c) at July 16, 2015 05:18 PM (evdj2)

Why did I just read that through in Bane voice?

Posted by: Jollyroger at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (t06LC)

147
super awesome

that jug eared dick head in DC is going to make remarks

taped of course, not live

I feel safe now

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (zOTsN)

148 Inconceivable!

Posted by: Vizzini at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (evdj2)

149 Up next: You won't believe where we found 3000 tons of raw sewage!!

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (VY8H5)

150 It's not like these guys are all secretive.

Well, and that's the answer. We know who they are. They aren't subtle about it. They make it very clear, and repeatedly so.

That's the answer, not banning the Koran or outlawing Islam. Go for the guys we know are bad actors. Deal with the guys we know are bad. We know who they are. Its not a secret.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:26 PM (39g3+)

151 Bring on The Five! Ban Shep! Shep reminds me too much of Gaius Baltar. Ban Shep! Bring on some people that will say F*xjk the Prophet, or something hateful, pretty much anything, other than the bland, nuanced horseshit that Shep brings to the show. I'm switching to CNN!

Posted by: goon at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (gy5kE)

152 DHS puts federal facilities on heightened alert status.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (p7ckx)

153 it occurs to me... if the guy who shot up the army base a couple of years ago and killed a dozen or so people... if people at the base were armed and someone took Major What's his Name down after he'd only killed two or three people, the experts and the MSM would be hollering "See!? Letting military people carry loaded weapons didn't prevent this!"

Posted by: mallfly at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (qSIlh)

154 Actually, terror attacks on crowded areas with low security are impossible, and here's why, on Vox next!

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (39g3+)

155 Fox news headline:
"Obama makes 1st visit by sitting president to federal prison"

Checking out his future digs?

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (DlmoZ)

156 I could also see why one might say "we don't need to staff this
recruiting station with armed guards" just from a risk standpoint (it
does seem low risk.)

How many attacks--successful and busted up--need to happen before the risk is no longer "low"? I'm not arguing with you, just some brief internetting shows that in addition to jihadi attacks that have actually been carried out, the FBI's been busting up others in the planning stage, targets specifically aimed at recruiting stations.

(Search is also bringing up the spoiled-brat progg-anarchist attacks on recruiting stations from 2007-2008--anyone remember those?--but they mostly attacked empty buildings at night because they're too cowardly to face even unarmed military. *ptooey*)

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (ZKzrr)

157 LOCK ME!! LOCK ME!!

Posted by: The Barn Door at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (evdj2)

158 >>Now that our intelligence, our military, our diplomats are all outed via the hack, it's only going to get worse.

Absolutely frightening considering that ISIS has been threatening to do attack military families for months.

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (NOIQH)

159 Okay we might arm them, but they can have only one bullet.

Posted by: Colin at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (WQLtV)

160 If it were me, any US Citizen who qualifies for a carry permit, would be granted one upon application, in any State.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (VPLuQ)

161 I had always believed runway tarmacs were safe, especially in the Balkans.

Posted by: Sir Hillary Edmund Rodham Clinton at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (8ZskC)

162
I dunno the govt and Republican candidates are telling me:

Illegal alien murderers from Mexico are a figment of my imagination, and muslim jiadhists don't exist.

Should I believe them or my lying eyes?

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (cdFPO)

163 Checking out his future digs?
Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (DlmoZ)

From your keyboard to God's ears.

Posted by: just saying at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (wkuqO)

164 Born in Kuwait in 1990. Hmm, what was going on there when he was a toddler?
This is the thanks we get....

Posted by: JoeF. at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (oUhK/)

165 Breaking:

Hobby Lobby Sells White Stars Like Those Used To Make Confederate Battle Flags

Posted by: CNN at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (p7ckx)

166 And, as an added bonus, The People Who Are Paid To Have Great Ideas decided we no longer needed armed Marine security guards inside our repair depot. Nope, unarmed GS-2 RentACops are PLENTY good enough for US.

Posted by: antisocialist at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (eGr8Z)

167 The pity is that the Muslims never try it on at CNN, or the NYT. Professional courtesy among anti-Americans, I guess.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (oKE6c)

168
gee he looks concerned

he is cold

lone gunman

dont know why

he does not give a single fuck

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (zOTsN)

169 the experts and the MSM would be hollering "See!? Letting military people carry loaded weapons didn't prevent this!"

People understand that you can't prevent the first few deaths. However, there is something very gratifying in seeing potential victims 4-13 standing over a well-ventilated corpse.

Posted by: pep at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (LAe3v)

170 160
If it were me, any US Citizen who qualifies for a carry permit, would be granted one upon application, in any State.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2015 05:28 PM (VPLuQ)

Preach on, Brother.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (DlmoZ)

171 A ~~stolen~~driven by illegal hired because there is no system to check on his visa overstay ~~box~~ tankertruck full of ~~explosives~~ easy to get gasoline, insecticide, or chemicals in a major auto tunnel would be bad. How many ways are there into Gotham?

Posted by: Grump928(c)

Posted by: Jean at July 16, 2015 05:29 PM (ztOda)

172 >>>>Well you know. They have 24 hours to fill and gotta talk to fill it. So you get a lot of teh stupid. First time I noticed this was during Desert Storm. CNN had lots of coverage but I noticed that they not only repeated themselves a lot, but had nothing useful to say for long periods of time. And as it turned out, a lot of what they said was abject nonsense, invention, and stupid rumors.

CNN was useful when there was no internet because you could get the latest breaking news anytime day or night. That was 25 years ago.

Now it's like Twitter without the wit and sarcasm.

Posted by: I. Dindoo Nuffin at July 16, 2015 05:30 PM (5fSr7)

173 This woman is not some random media dipshit. She was the Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at Homeland Security.

Another fucking incompetent imbecile that President Netflix kept around to make himself feel better about his marginal intellect.

Posted by: El Kabong at July 16, 2015 05:30 PM (9oC/Q)

174 None of this rampant speculation makes us any safer from the looming threat of Tea Party terrorism.

Posted by: The Department of Homeland Security at July 16, 2015 05:30 PM (8ZskC)

175 Obama's talking.

I'm waiting to see if he uses this as a time to push for gun control?

Posted by: MayBee at July 16, 2015 05:30 PM (owMUc)

176 its a heart breaking circumstance to be killed in this fashion

WTF

killed in this fashion?

like a car accident?

or being struck my lightening?

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:30 PM (zOTsN)

177
I'm also being told that the debt is no problemo, in fact it's good for the economy. Speaking of the economy, we're told it is simply fantastic.

I'm also informed on a regular basis that obamacare is not only working, but working well past expectations.

My lying eyes tell me different...

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:30 PM (cdFPO)

178 This "expert" is the anti-Rick Rescorla.

So ignorant that she makes the situation wrong by saying the opposite of what is true.

In a sane world, she would be laughed off the air.

So, yes, I'm expecting her to be hired by the Obama Administration.

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 16, 2015 05:31 PM (61JYR)

179 Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (ZKzrr)

But how many recruiting stations are there? Tons of them. There's no way we have the manpower to put dedicated armed guards at them all.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:31 PM (hhQEJ)

180 Obama makes 1st visit by sitting president to federal prison

#thug~~votes~~livesmatter

Posted by: Jen Psocki at July 16, 2015 05:31 PM (Dwehj)

181
Didn't the palistinians also shoot up alot of malls in Israel in the early 70's?
And then stopped aparently because the Israelies started shooting back?

any of you old goats remember that?

Posted by: Yo! at July 16, 2015 05:31 PM (q+zA9)

182 Lone gunman ... sort it out ... investigations proceed ... deepest sympathies ... blah, blah, blah! It was ISLAM, Islam did it. Violent, killer, murderous, ISLAM. Nothing more, nothing less, Mr. President.

Posted by: goon at July 16, 2015 05:31 PM (gy5kE)

183
THREE DAYS BEFORE SHOOTING, MUSLIMS STAGED PROTEST IN CHATTANOOGA AGAINST 'AMERICAN TALIBAN'

The shooter at the Chattanooga Marine shooting has been identified as Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, leading many to question if Islamism might have been the motivation for the shooting. It might not then be a coincidence that three days prior to the attack, Muslims staged a protest at Chattanooga defending Islam:

(see picts)

They targeted Chattanooga because the FBI caught a man from there who was planning an attack on a Mosque in upstate New York.

Just a coincidence? Perhaps. We'll find out more as information is released about Abdulazeez.

therightscoop.com

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (qCMvj)

184 LOCK ME!! LOCK ME!!
Posted by: The Barn Door at July 16, 2015 05:27 PM (evdj2)
--------------------------------------------
I ain't going back in there.

Posted by: John Kerry at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (xkSSa)

185

its a heart breaking circumstance to be killed in this fashion

like a tree fell on them

sept away in a flood

act of God

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (zOTsN)

186 1) Workplace Violence!
2) Workplace Violence!
3) KIMS AZZZZZZ!!!

Posted by: ABCNNPRMSNBCB(B)S at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (5buP8)

187
I was also told ten years ago that Iran was 10 years away from a nuclear weapon.

Yesterday I was told that Iran will never build a nuclear weapon, thanks to obama.

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (cdFPO)

188 Just plugging in so I'm a little confused. I thought we just struck a deal with Iran. Why is somebody wanting to kill us?

Posted by: dogfish at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (jWtyG)

189 >> This woman is not some random media dipshit. She was the Former Assistant Secretary for Intergovernmental Affairs at Homeland Security.

And of course, it's even worse than I realized.

Of effing course.

Posted by: Mama AJ at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (61JYR)

190 In 2019, we'll have MSNBC's National Security Expert Marie Harf explaining that it was inevitable for Iran to develop the nuclear technology that just vaporized Tel Aviv.

Posted by: El Kabong at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (9oC/Q)

191 Gosh, it's almost like this is an act of war or something. Nope, can't say that, right, Obama?

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (NOIQH)

192 But how many recruiting stations are there? Tons of them. There's no
way we have the manpower to put dedicated armed guards at them all.

My understanding is the guys at the desks have some experience with firearms.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (ZKzrr)

193 Terrorism EXPERT... X-SPURT... riiight... X = unknown, spurt = a drip under pressure.

Posted by: OK, Thanks, Bye at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (ucB75)

194 I wonder if this guy came here as a refugee...

Posted by: Phil at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (39FGM)

195 At CNN you don't have to ask for stupid sauce with your stupid, it comes with it.

Posted by: eman at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (yVN4J)

196 "But how many recruiting stations are there? Tons of them."

Not for long.
Barky is reducing our terrorist exposure by reducing our military forces.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (VPLuQ)

197 I thought posse commitatus was about using the military as law enforcement.

It doesn't seem to have anything to do with whether or not they're allowed to be armed.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (oVJmc)

198 182--but he didn't say anything about " not painting all Muslims with a broad brush..." I guess even he's getting sick of how stupid that sounds...

Posted by: JoeF. at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (oUhK/)

199 Obama makes 1st visit by sitting president to federal prison

I guess it's not nice to hope that his next visit is much, much, much longer.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 16, 2015 05:33 PM (OSs/l)

200 When terrorists decide to just start shooting up the airport instead of crashing the plane they will also say that you don't expect terrorists to attack the airport itself. Even though we've all been expecting exactly that since 9/11

Posted by: Buzzion at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (z/Ubi)

201 I wnet to Israel in the 90s and you had to go through a metal detector to get in the mall

they blew up the food court, by a pizza place

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (zOTsN)

202 CBS National Security Advisor Jen Psaki, 2019: "No one could have anticipated that Islamic countries would use nuclear weapons against Israel. It's completely unpredictable."

Posted by: El Kabong at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (9oC/Q)

203 179 But how many recruiting stations are there? Tons of them. There's no
way we have the manpower to put dedicated armed guards at them all.

No? Aren't they staffed by military personnel? Aren't those military personnel trained and qualified on to shoot? Arm them. Arm them well so the next radical jackass wearing a bedsheet on his head wanting to do ill is rewarded Mozambique style.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (DlmoZ)

204 We really need to stop thinking of the news as "news."

It's either propaganda or clickbait.

Posted by: Hurricane LaFawnduh at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (laMCB)

205 Save your outrage for the serious stuff, like not wanting to bake a gay wedding cake or writing comic books in which a female is pushed into a refrigerator.

Posted by: Barack Obama at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (xkSSa)

206 But soon there will be plenty of terrorist recruiting stations...

Posted by: JoeF. at July 16, 2015 05:34 PM (oUhK/)

207 re 169: no, to the prog mentality any right wing idea that doesn't work 100 percent of the time starting the day the program goes into effect is no good. Prog programs that run for decades are the ones that need to be given more time and money.

And so long as CNN etc preach that armed people can't stop crime and will shoot each other over parking spaces, the LIVs will believe it.

Posted by: mallfly at July 16, 2015 05:35 PM (qSIlh)

208 My understanding is the guys at the desks have some experience with firearms.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at July 16, 2015 05:32 PM (ZKzrr)

Yes, right, which is why right under that I said they should be allowed to carry side arms.

The media is making odd straw men arguments about putting "armed guards" at recruiting stations to smack those arguments down.

Right we don't have the resources for dedicated guards I get that, but we can let the freaking military have their weapons back.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at July 16, 2015 05:35 PM (hhQEJ)

209 I am not going to type what I want to type because people get mad when I type things about vast areas of the world being depopulated deliberately. So instead I'll just allude to the concept and hope that someone, sometime soon decides to be evil back at the Islamists.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at July 16, 2015 05:35 PM (/BV4k)

210 As horrible as this is I am still in shock and stunned by the silence on the Planned Parenthood abominations. I want some bitch(es) in jail over that.

Posted by: dogfish at July 16, 2015 05:35 PM (jWtyG)

211 It's a good thing I'm not Preezy.
I'd probably arrest the shooter's parents.

Posted by: @votermom at July 16, 2015 05:35 PM (cbfNE)

212 Okay we might arm them, but they can have only one bullet.

I have mine in my shirt pocket.

Posted by: Barney Fife at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (W5DcG)

213 168

gee he looks concerned

he is cold

lone gunman

dont know why

he does not give a single fuck

He's pissed that his glorious non-treaty treaty is pushed to page 2.

Posted by: some random meathead at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (p7ckx)

214 Posse Commitatus has nothing to do with this! They are military, but more importantly they are American fucking citizens who have the right to bear arms for their own defense!

Posted by: Duncan MacLeod, the Highlander at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (COpZ4)

215 I'm sure someone has already linked this one.

Posted by: Cindy Munford at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (7Lm22)

216 You are absolutely right. Cake baking refusals cause gun violence. There will be an investigation of those filthy Christians!

Posted by: goon at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (gy5kE)

217 I guess even he's getting sick of how stupid that sounds...

No matter how stoopid it sounds, keep repeating it.

Posted by: Saul Bobinski at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (Dwehj)

218 180 Obama makes 1st visit by sitting president to federal prison

Posted by: Jen Psocki at July 16, 2015 05:31 PM (Dwehj)

Illinois governors beat him to that by a lot.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (oKE6c)

219

newd

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (qCMvj)

220 Sheppy Smythe:

Minutes before the attack there was a tweet originating from an unknown ISIS cell that is believed to set off the attack...

Wait a minute. I'm getting an update.

Quick! Quick get out of the country!

The tweet came from inside the White House!

Repeat:

The tweet came from inside the White House!

Get out of the country now!

*squealing violins*

Posted by: When a Stranger Tweets -2015 at July 16, 2015 05:36 PM (0cMkb)

221 Right we don't have the resources for dedicated guards I get that, but we can let the freaking military have their weapons back.>>>

Pistols and SAWs.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (81UWZ)

222
52
Do you know why Muslim jihadists are attacking military targets here?

I hope you all know, but do you??
Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:10 PM (cdFPO)

Because it is easy? Easier than killing our soldiers over there?

Because it is demoralizing?

Revenge?

Jihad?

What is it that you think we are supposed to know?

Posted by: Sambo at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (9UV3C)

223 If only I were still an analyst, I could've prevented all this.

Posted by: Marie Harf at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (xkSSa)

224
The Democrats blame this on Republicans' spending cuts in 3, 2, ...

Posted by: Soothsayer's Home For Imaginary Friends at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (cdFPO)

225 Meanwhile the Senate voted 87-12 on implementing Common Core nationwide.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (39g3+)

226 >>But soon there will be plenty of terrorist recruiting stations...

Twitter, Facebook, YouTube....

Posted by: Lizzy at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (NOIQH)

227 Mohammed Abdulazeez vs. Timmy Hall
Same guy? Talk about a coincidence,huh?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDB-vJ3uRhU&feature=youtu.be

Posted by: zek at July 16, 2015 05:37 PM (LGXGf)

228 Wild West mass shootings, forever descending on right-to-carry areas, yet always only ever landing in gun-free zones.

Posted by: holygoat at July 16, 2015 05:38 PM (t3wLW)

229 Credentials are all that matter.

Demonstrating in-depth knowledge, critical analysis, historical precedents, legal implications, competent threat assessments...

Fvck those things as long as you have a vaguely relevant degree and a political appointment.

What comes after "Totally Screwed"?

Posted by: Burn the Witch at July 16, 2015 05:38 PM (xSCb6)

230 185

its a heart breaking circumstance to be killed in this fashion

***********
comment carried forward. Obama and his piss poor weak politically correct language. And now we
will gather information for how to handle this in the future. All the
emotion and outrage of a dead animal.

Posted by: gracepmc at July 16, 2015 05:38 PM (DMQhB)

231 I'm doing it wrong. Anyway an off duty police officer killed a shooter at a mall in Utah on Feb. 13, 2007.

Posted by: Cindy Munford at July 16, 2015 05:38 PM (7Lm22)

232 President Assmunch must be pretty upset.

Posted by: eman at July 16, 2015 05:38 PM (yVN4J)

233
"the future does not belong to thos who insult the profit of islam"
by barky

Posted by: Yo! at July 16, 2015 05:38 PM (q+zA9)

234 Bottom line to be learned from leftists, blacks, and Muslims: in this society, to get respect, and to get what you want, you have to be prepared to make a credible threat of criminal behavior.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:39 PM (oKE6c)

235 President Passive Voice should go die in a fire

they were murdered

Posted by: Brian Williams at July 16, 2015 05:39 PM (zOTsN)

236 We trust that buck private with rocket launchers and grenades, but we can't trust him with a pistol to defend himself? Cops don't even get as much training with firearms as a soldier or a marine.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor
--------------

Well, that's just not true. There are many, many service people who have little more than the most familiarization with small arms.

There were all kinds of idiots that I served with who would not be qualified to be armed 24/7. I would say E-5 and above, who have held combat-arms MOS's. That seems restrictive...., but believe me, there are plenty of arms-inept people in the services.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 05:40 PM (9mTYi)

237 That seems restrictive...., but believe me, there are plenty of arms-inept people in the services.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 05:40 PM (9mTYi)
Are they the ones who go into police work afterwards?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 05:41 PM (oKE6c)

238 Obama (if he addresses it), will call it "a tragedy", and a sign that we need to do something about gun control, rather than evidence of the Left's thorough fcuking of our culture.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 05:42 PM (9mTYi)

239 believe me, there are plenty of arms-inept people in the services.

How many expert shooters do you think are on the police force? If there's a real problem with hapless shooters in the military, that's pretty easy to solve, don't you think? Putting them on the range and training them more then arming them seems a pretty easy and obvious solution.

Yeah, there will be some dumbasses who can't handle a gun. There will be some who just aren't worth trusting with a weapon. They'll identify themselves pretty quickly. I'd like to see that before seeing more troops killed while being helplessly disarmed at the base or while out at the recruiting office.

Its part of the uniform. If they can be trusted with a gun at war, they can be trusted with a gun at peace.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:43 PM (39g3+)

240 239
If they can be trusted with a gun at war, they can be trusted with a gun at peace.

Amen to that.

Posted by: OurCountryIsScrewed at July 16, 2015 05:45 PM (DlmoZ)

241 Stupid sonsof bitches at cnn are like the 52%. The only reason terrorism hasn't happened at shopping malls is,,,,BECAUSE IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. The mohamadans will get around to it. They just don't have their orders yet. From 'somebody'.

Posted by: Eromero at July 16, 2015 05:46 PM (go5uR)

242 30 CNN is trying to corner the market on stoopid.
Posted by: maddogg at July 16, 2015 05:06 PM (xWW96)

Not if we have anything to say about it, we will fight for that scrap of bread that is our target demo for ourselves.

Posted by: Vox, MSNBC and almost everyone is in modern journalism at July 16, 2015 05:51 PM (F9322)

243 Mumbai
http://tinyurl.com/ohm9a78

Posted by: Charlemagne at July 16, 2015 05:51 PM (8SKlD)

244 239

Its part of the uniform. If they can be trusted with a gun at war, they can be trusted with a gun at peace.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:43 PM (39g3+)
They need to be able to exercise their right to self-defense because they are citizens, as do the civilians and contractors with whom they work.I agree with arming them, but it needs to go further. I work on an installation where 1/3rd of the people there have CCWs, and many (like me) routinely practice practical shooting. No reason why we shouldn't be able to carry inconspicuously.

Posted by: SARDiver at July 16, 2015 05:52 PM (DzJBg)

245 Called for in Feb
http://tinyurl.com/oo4ecdr

Posted by: Charlemagne at July 16, 2015 05:53 PM (8SKlD)

246 Ok, well maybe in the past you wouldn't expect such an attack, but *now* you would. So if they go this route, they are admitting things are less safe under Obama's watch than before.

Posted by: MSM at July 16, 2015 05:55 PM (xkSSa)

247 On Fox, Shep couldn't figure out why Marines would be in a facility run by the Navy...
Posted by: Mike in Jersey at July 16, 2015 05:09 PM (yFzX9)

Probably just waiting for a ride.

/Navy joke

Sadly 5 years from now the realty will be having to catch transports on ships belonging to non US powers cause having enough ships is as passe as bayonets to the guy in charge.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 16, 2015 05:56 PM (F9322)

248 We in the administration and the government should give voice to the muslims living in this country and the discrimination they face.

Posted by: Jeh Fukc Face Johnson at July 16, 2015 05:58 PM (5buP8)

249
Mo kills 4 Marines and the FBI can't figure out why? Dammit I am so sick of losing our guys to these bastards. I hope someone who wants to be president has the balls to say they will let our military carry guns again .

How many times has one of those goatfr's that were supposed to be on our side turn their guns on our guys and gals? This is so f'n stupid on our part. We know who the enemy is and just give everything to them. Stupid stupid stupid.

Posted by: f'd at July 16, 2015 05:59 PM (BO/km)

250 Its part of the uniform. If they can be trusted with a gun at war, they can be trusted with a gun at peace.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at July 16, 2015 05:43 PM (39g3+)

240 239
If they can be trusted with a gun at war, they can be trusted with a gun at peace.

Amen to that.
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YMMV, but I stand by my comments.
There are thousands of service people who might bear arms during conflict, but are primarily suited to,say, typing. They have neither the innate psychology nor can they be (nor are they inclined to be) trained to handle firearms properly and responsibly. It just isn't their job, nor is it practical to make/keep them proficient and competent. It just isn't.

That is why people are steered into different MOS's. There is a vast gulf between the psychology of Audy Murphy and Chelsea Manning.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 06:00 PM (9mTYi)

251
120 Hmmm, Kuwait. I really expected a black guy who found islam relatively recently.
Posted by: BurtTC at July 16, 2015 05:21 PM (TOk1P)

It's all in the name release. If it was a guy that was a recent convert they would not have given his Muslim name. They would have searched everywhere to get his original birth name if he were a recent convert. That they released his name as Muslim meant he was born Muslim.

Posted by: Buzzion at July 16, 2015 06:01 PM (z/Ubi)

252 I find listings for 5 mosques in Chattanooga.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 06:04 PM (9mTYi)

253 Sadly 5 years from now the realty will be having to
catch transports on ships belonging to non US powers cause having enough
ships is as passe as bayonets to the guy in charge.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 16, 2015 05:56 PM (F9322)

What about the USS Gabby Giffords?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 06:04 PM (oKE6c)

254 What about the USS Gabby Giffords?
Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 06:04 PM (oKE6c)

On that ship it will be the Marine's guns that have to find alternate transportation to hot spots.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 16, 2015 06:06 PM (F9322)

255 Such things just don't happen, certainly not since The Crusades.

Posted by: High Horse at July 16, 2015 06:08 PM (jfUIE)

256 It's all in the name release. If it was a guy that
was a recent convert they would not have given his Muslim name. They
would have searched everywhere to get his original birth name if he were
a recent convert. That they released his name as Muslim meant he was
born Muslim.

Posted by: Buzzion at July 16, 2015 06:01 PM (z/Ubi)

We're getting to be like Soviet citizens, able to divine the truth from intentionally misleading reports.

No party mentioned for a malefactor = Democrat.
No mention of race = Black.
Terrorist incident with non-Muslim name = Black recent convert to Islam.
Turning life around = Gang member.
About to go to college = Just got out of prison.
LGBT activist = fag/dyke
Others?

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 06:08 PM (oKE6c)

257 238 Obama (if he addresses it), will call it "a tragedy", and a sign that we need to do something about gun control, rather than evidence of the Left's thorough fcuking of our culture.
Posted by: Mike hammer, etc.,

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Oddly, he didn't.
He didn't express that this is one too many times in his Presidency, that someone has murdered his military men.

He didn't use it as a time to call for gun control.
It's almost like he sees this as a completely different thing.

Posted by: MayBee at July 16, 2015 06:09 PM (owMUc)

258 He didn't use it as a time to call for gun control.
It's almost like he sees this as a completely different thing.
Posted by: MayBee
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So..., he won't be sending the DoJ troops down there.

Posted by: Mike hammer, etc., etc. at July 16, 2015 06:11 PM (9mTYi)

259 So that 'gun-free zone' sticker didnt stop gun shootings from Islamicist terrorists?

This is proof they needed a BIGGER STICKER

Posted by: Dumbass Gungrabbing Liberal at July 16, 2015 06:22 PM (yTnTP)

260 I mean, he's the Commander in Chief. He should be outraged that someone is shooting and threatening his men on American soil. He should have been outraged when it happened before.

But no. Charleston he wanted to be a learning experience. A marker that this happens too often.
But not this. This wasn't at all about anger at the shooter.

Posted by: MayBee at July 16, 2015 06:25 PM (owMUc)

261 "The shooter at the Chattanooga Marine shooting has been identified as
Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, leading many to question if Islamism might
have been the motivation for the shooting"

... With a straight face, CNN calls it 'domestic terrorism'.

Posted by: Keep Calm Cruz On at July 16, 2015 06:32 PM (yTnTP)

262 Why we can't trust GIs with sidearms is because of the possibility they might lose them to an undocumented re-immigrant who might accidentally shoot a tourist in a sanctuary community, causing embarrassment.

Posted by: BuddyPC at July 16, 2015 06:35 PM (jfUIE)

263 Another mall shooting:
http://tinyurl.com/pvmjsnd

Posted by: Jack O'Spades at July 16, 2015 07:06 PM (xQZ/Y)

264 I never expected someone named Mohammed to carry out a terrorist attack. I blame Pamela Geller.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at July 16, 2015 07:08 PM (0RdKg)

265 NOTHING TO DO WITH POSSE COMITATUS.

But, thank you for playing, you stupid broad.

CNN has been trying more and more to out-idiot MSNBC. I think they're pulling even.

Posted by: Beverly at July 16, 2015 07:20 PM (Zc2Wi)

266 Man, they just lie all the time, don't they? Instead of spending all of our time refuting their lies, we need to go on the offensive -- and stay on it.

Posted by: Beverly at July 16, 2015 07:21 PM (Zc2Wi)

267 259 So that 'gun-free zone' sticker didnt stop gun shootings from Islamicist terrorists?
This is proof they needed a BIGGER STICKER
Posted by: Dumbass Gungrabbing Liberal at July 16, 2015 06:22 PM (yTnTP)

And they need signs printed in Arabic. Duh.

Posted by: Jay Guevara at July 16, 2015 07:31 PM (oKE6c)

268 247

Sadly 5 years from now the realty will be having to catch transports
on ships belonging to non US powers cause having enough ships is as
passe as bayonets to the guy in charge.

Posted by: Bete resigned to just watching the world burn at July 16, 2015 05:56 PM (F9322)

Pshah. YEAH. Hellllloooooo! The 1980s called and wants their Navy back!

Posted by: SARDiver at July 16, 2015 07:41 PM (DzJBg)

269 268, 247

It has to be said. Carter was a good friend to the Navy.

Did a fair amount of deregulation as well.

Posted by: stonefreetorant at July 17, 2015 05:25 AM (7yEdg)

270 They HAVE happen in malls in Africa. Why would the not happen here?

Posted by: burt at July 17, 2015 10:00 AM (ls8AU)

271 'unexpectedly' does that mean like Obama's unemployment figures each month?

Posted by: burt at July 17, 2015 10:05 AM (ls8AU)

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