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Back in June of 1982 I went to Andrews Air Force Base to see President Reagan arrive and speak on his return trip from Europe, I think it was. I had a small Buck three-bladed stockman that wasn't detected by Secret Service metal detectors and volunteered it anyway to stay out of trouble. The Secret Service Agent really was indecisive, then finally just had me take it back and have my bus driver hold it. The bus drivers ribbed me about having it. Then the same Secret Service Agent saw me get back in line and waved me forward to let me cut line ahead of all the others that amassed in front of me afterwards. Cool dude.

My question is what do you think would happen if a similar scenario occurred in 2008?
 
darth kcorbe said:
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Sadly, this isn´t that far-fetched. We need to get over 9/11 and the terrorist threat and whatnot.

At the end of the day, we´re making our lives miserable by living in fear of everything, when it achieves nothing. Determined madmen will find a way around any security measures we set up.

If we live in fear, the terrorists have achieved their goal.
 
At the NRA Convention, they had people check their knives when they went to the McCain speech.
 
After The 101st had re-deployed to Ft. Campbell, GW made aa appearence on post. No knives or cell phones. I personally could care less about seeing or hearing the man speak, I used this as an opportunity to bullshit with friends. Something about this whole thing pisses me of though. We have sworn to uphold blah blah blah, who were trusted with serious hardware to close with and destroy the enemy... are not even trusted with a pocketknife.

On a tangent... I've heard that all us vets who are receiving benefits for PTSD and who also happen to be gun owners are on a watch list of sorts.
 
When Bill Clinton went to visit our troops in the Balkans during the conflict in the early '90s, snipers were a real problem. How did the Secret Service respond? They wanted our troops to surrender all of their rifle ammunition and have the company commanders remove all bolts from all rifles and lock them up. The only ones with active weapons were the agents themselves. If an attack happened, our soldiers would have been completely defenseless. These brave men and women take an oath to protect the U.S., put their lives on the line, but they are not to be trusted with a rifle! Absolutely unbelievable! No wonder the military is having a hard time recruiting people!:( They are being treated as third-class citizens.
 
I hate to sound like a (insert right wing conspiratorial wacko comment here), but sadly, I see a 2nd Revolutionary War in my lifetime.
 
Arkeld said:
Sadly, this isn´t that far-fetched. We need to get over 9/11 and the terrorist threat and whatnot.

At the end of the day, we´re making our lives miserable by living in fear of everything, when it achieves nothing. Determined madmen will find a way around any security measures we set up.

If we live in fear, the terrorists have achieved their goal.
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+1:thumbup:Very well said!!
 
On a tangent... I've heard that all us vets who are receiving benefits for PTSD and who also happen to be gun owners are on a watch list of sorts.
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During the Clinton era tens of thousands of vets who recieved PTSD Disability benefits were put on the NICS deny list. After the Virginia Tech shooting, congress began working on legislation to help make sure that people like Cho, who were already statuatorily ineligible to posess a firearm due to their mental health adjudication (in a court), were put on the decline list- that those records were shared with the FBI and state NICS POCs. That legislation is also supposed to relieve those wrongfully blacklisted veterans of their deny status and other's who's deny status was the result of things other than adjudication.
 
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