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I LOL'd at this.

"What if someone saw the gun, and went off the handle, and grabbed it?"

1) Of course! Completely normal, regular people frequently 'go off the handle' when they see a gun. The gun is what makes them crazy...
He mentions it happening in a courtroom... Where you already KNOW there's violent criminals coming into... Completely different scenario then a public meeting.
2) How is that the Gun's fault? Granted, sure, the guy could have carried it a little more securely, maybe at least level 2 retention.. but he is not required to by law.
3) Whats to say someone couldn't 'go off the handle' and illegally bring a concealed handgun of their own?
4) I'm sure the Secret Service had a scope on that gun the entire time. If some third party 'went off the handle' and grabbed it, and raised it in the president's direction, he would have gotten a .308 round in the chest before he could even get the sights up.

AndyC wrote:It's the true lone wolves that security details worry about, concealed or not. Most organized assassination plots generate ripples somewhere that may be picked up beforehand - but a lone, previously unknown person with a grudge who doesn't care if he dies as long as he gets a crack at the target is really bad news.

And that goes right back to the fact that Laws don't deter crime, they punish it. The punishment is supposed to be the deterrent, however, when someone like that walks in someplace with the intention of killing themselves after the deed has been done.... well, it's fair to say that they aren't deterred by anything.

Ya know... people are missing the point...

It's not the guy with the obvious, non-concealed legal firearm you have to worry about. They know where he is, and you bet they'd have someone keeping an eye on him.

It's the people carrying there concealed, illegally that are the ones that the SS is worried about.

If you watch the interview(interrogation?) of this guy after the fact, he holds up pretty well to the obvious baiting trying to get him to 'out' himself as a 'right wing nutjob'

[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=AYUmCj4yud4[/youtube]

I don't think I could have done better myself... then again, I wouldn't go on one of these shows myself just to get it implied to the ignorant masses that watch it that I'm a lunatic.