Odd coincidence, just yesterday I mentioned OKC...
Slacktivism on Orlando.
EverCurious said:
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But fear not, many of us are quite angry today, many \will\ fight - they will cry for Orlando and it will be remembered just as they still cry from the Oklahoma City Bombing, from 9/11, long after the media abandoned those stories for ratings. And they did fight, they did change things to try to make it safer.
No, they didn't fight, they did nothing. Unless you can explain what they did and how it stopped all of the terrorist attacks that have happened since OKC.
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Fighting and trying does not equal never happen again. In order to prevent all of it, we would have to give up our freedom. Freedom has risks, we must balance freedom and safety, there is no one side or the other will win 100%, there never will be. To quote you Life is cruel, deal with it - though I will change that and say people are assholes, we can't change that.
After OKC they amped up security at federal courts around the country, I know my mother worked in one. Those amped up security measures did not go away either. For example, after OKC I could no longer park in the parking garage, I could no longer park on the street outside the court house, I had to park nearly a block away because they have a safety perimeter now where no parking is allowed, and if you pull up to the doors to pick your mother up and sit for more than five minutes, armed guards come outside and police come have a little chat with you, tell you to move along. I have not forgotten OKC.
9/11, really you don't see all the changes after 9/11? Can't bring a damn soda on the plane anymore because of 9/11, no one sells what I drink inside the gate, it pisses me off frankly - I've not forgotten 9/11, I recall it every time I go the airport and realize that some sick bastards took away /my/ right to have a drink I like on my trips. Yea I put up with it, I deal with it and drink sodas I don't like, but damn skippy in my head I'm pissed at those fuckers every time I fly.