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<blockquote data-quote="donner" data-source="post: 2886201" data-attributes="member: 277"><p>the benefit of hindsight is that it puts a lot of things in perspective. While this person might have spouted off about the US, it could have come across as disgust for our foreign policy or other 'protected' political speech. Only after this tragedy happened did it start to seem like something more.</p><p></p><p>For example, your neighbor could see you fly your US flag upside down, have seen you with guns and heard you talk about your feels about the direction this country is going and how it's leadership is failing us. Does that mean they should report you to the authorities? Have you done anything illegal? Keeping in mind there have been several attacks by white males (which most of us are), we would fit a 'profile' to some. </p><p></p><p>Also, you can be 'radicalized' and still have not violated any laws, so what should have been done? Should he have been put on a list and prevented from purchasing his weapons? Should they have been seized?</p><p></p><p>Lone wolf, as i understand it to have been used in the past, generally means the person wasn't part of a larger cell or plot. Not that 'no one else' had any knowledge about the person's feeling. That being a 'lone wolf' meant that there was less 'chatter' to intercept since orders weren't coming from places abroad.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donner, post: 2886201, member: 277"] the benefit of hindsight is that it puts a lot of things in perspective. While this person might have spouted off about the US, it could have come across as disgust for our foreign policy or other 'protected' political speech. Only after this tragedy happened did it start to seem like something more. For example, your neighbor could see you fly your US flag upside down, have seen you with guns and heard you talk about your feels about the direction this country is going and how it's leadership is failing us. Does that mean they should report you to the authorities? Have you done anything illegal? Keeping in mind there have been several attacks by white males (which most of us are), we would fit a 'profile' to some. Also, you can be 'radicalized' and still have not violated any laws, so what should have been done? Should he have been put on a list and prevented from purchasing his weapons? Should they have been seized? Lone wolf, as i understand it to have been used in the past, generally means the person wasn't part of a larger cell or plot. Not that 'no one else' had any knowledge about the person's feeling. That being a 'lone wolf' meant that there was less 'chatter' to intercept since orders weren't coming from places abroad. [/QUOTE]
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