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Someone else tries
to bring aboard dan-
gerous chemicals so
shampoo and tooth-
paste must be Lillipu-
tian in size.
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(House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mike McCaul, and former National Counter-
terrorism Center director Matthew Olsen discuss homegrown extremism in light of ISIS Urging
‘Lone Wolves’ to Launch Attacks.)
And each of those ma-
chines requires a min-
imum of three people
each to operate: one
for compliance, a sec-
ond to watch the mon-
itor and at least one
more in case contra-
Meanwhile, our responses have remained band is found.
typical of the quote-unquote “stronger”
force shortly before it’s beaten or over- Then there is the other asymmetric,
lone wolf threat: the mass shooter.
thrown.
We turn and point to the ponderous levia- Large metal detectors and armed guards
used to be associated with poor inner-city
than at the last successful tactic.
Someone turns a jet
liner into a massive
missile using a box
cutter so we install
bulky,
expensive
X-ray machines to look
for pocket knives and
nail files.
But then someone else
tries to smuggle and
ignite a bomb hidden
in his shoe so now
all footwear must be
X-rayed.
(On Oct 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock, 64, opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers at a music fes-
tival on the Las Vegas Strip firing more than 1,100 rounds from his suite on the 32nd floor of
theMandalay Bay hotel, killing 58 people and leaving 851 injured from gunfire and the result-
ing panic. The incident is the deadliest mass shooting committed by an individual in the US.) 5