Chattanooga terror attack

Wow that's cool.  A different font and absolutely none of my post can be read.

Long story still long, I said that the issue in hand here isn't even gun control.  Had those men have been armed, who is to say they would have had the time to even defend themselves.  You could be snuck up on, fired upon from a distance where you may or may not be visible. 

The main point here is the extremely real threat of domestic lone wolf terrorism.  The terror networks--isis or not--are clearly getting a message across to muslim americans (mostly younger, more influential minds) to carry out egregious attacks as such.  Whether it be 1,000, 100 or 1 dead, it is all a victory, and that's what they push.

From what I had read about this kid that carried this murder plot out, he was a grad of UT-Chat, had a good electrical engineering job and had no rap sheet other than a DUI.  Wasn't on any watchlist and was considered a "good kid" in his neighborhood, yet he just wakes up one day and decides to gun down four Marines?

We need to wake up and see the reality.  There isn't enough information on this continent to detect who or who not is a threat to national security; and you can have all of the guns strapped to your body you want, but they are pretty useless when you don't see the attack coming.

My point here is, there's really nothing any of us can do, aside from wiping out these terror cells, which seems implausible at this point.  The more these attacks becomes prevalent here, the more helpless you have to feel.  Sad, brutal truths of 2015.

You need to chill out and get off the defensive.  I'm not your scalabrine trying to start nothing more than a race war between black and white in a forum discussing guns and terrorism.

I will concede to the fact that fire-free zones are bigger targets for attacks as such.  But I disagree totally with your idea of lone wolf attackers.  MAYBE not in this case, but most of these lunatics are willing to sacrifice their lives for their disgusting cause.  I own a gun, I believe in owning a gun WHEN the gun owner is completely, 100% trained and capable and responsible enough to handle said weapon.  A gun on every shelf isn't going to help us against most lone wolf attacks.  Didn't help during the Boston bombing.  Christ, a registered gun owner who was carrying (9mm on ankle) was shot here in Pittsburgh at a Macy's when a kid meant to hit somebody else walking next to the man and his wife. 

When you don't see it coming, how do you protect yourself?  Once again, the main issue here is domestic terrorism, and the increasing number of lone wolf attacks inspired by terror cells who pray on influential muslim americans.  Same sense, ONCE AGAIN, I don't see a reasonable conclusion to preventing it. 

Tsarnaev was a complete coward too, and in no way was the Boston bombing preventable by way of a gun. 

Alright so I classify that as no reasonable answer to this problem.

Clearly the vigorous intelligence being applied to our national security is not weeding out the dangerous individuals facing us domestically. 

And an armed society is obviously a two way street when you consider that (being nice and fair) half of gun owners are uneducated, unwilling or eradicate, zero accuracy holders.  Most of the people I know that carry guns have gone to less than two mandatory classes on gun usage, and couldn't hit a f**king barn door standing on a bale of hay 10 feet away.  You just open the door for more stupid, ignorant and/or unwilling to use gun owners walking around.  But at least you would have an increase in suicides and accidental deaths, and hopefully some of those dipshitts would be your muslim radicals.

In a perfect world, everybody that owns a gun goes above and beyond to learn about their weapon, practice firing their weapon and has the capability and mental ability to use the weapon in correct, hostile situation/environment.  But let's be serious. 

I will conclude, once again with there are no reasonable ways to irradiate this real and present problem.  I will also say again though, that YES, having read more, had those marines been armed, they would more than likely be alive today.  Those men also knew how and when to use a gun.  Most do not.