“Every place where you’ve got more than a couple dozen people, are you going to check the surrounding areas to make sure no one can get to high ground and shoot down on people?” he asked. “That’s what the Secret Service has to do to protect the president, and it’s a massive undertaking. So I don’t know that that’s the solution to this problem.”<\/p>\n
He said the sad reality is that the world is a dangerous place, and we cannot assume that there will be a “magic solution” to death and destruction.<\/p>\n
Hanson said one of the most effective ways to prevent attacks like what happened Sunday in Vegas is, “If you see something, say something.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
On September 12th, 2001, I made a walking pass through Washington, DC just to see how things had changed in the intervening hours after the terrorist attack. I walked through Lafayette Park, across the street from the White House and there was a large, unattended suitcase sitting only several yards from the White House. I pointed it out to the Park Police and he responded, “Oh, we know whose it is.”<\/p>\n
It was large enough to contain a fairly destructive bomb, but because the police knew which homeless guy had left it there, they assumed that it was safe. <\/p>\n
I’d been in Germany which was much more in tune with terrorist threats – their policemen patrolled the cities with automatic firearms at the ready. <\/p>\n
US Forces towed a car out on to the runaway at Rhein Mein airport and blew it up because a woman was seen running from the car into the PX Exchange facility. Of course, she was in a hurry, and there was no bomb in her car, but still….A few weeks before that, an airman had been killed for his ID card so some Red Brigade terrorists could drive a car bomb on the airbase and detonate, luckily injuring no one.<\/p>\n
We probably wouldn’t allow that to happen here, because we don’t want to be bothered to be vigilant – we expect the government to do that for us. They’ve been so good at it so far.<\/p>\n
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