Vehicle plows into crowd on Bourbon St., with 14 fatalities

CapitalCitySaint said
I find comments like this fascinating because for women, we always have to consider our safety when doing normal things like walking down a street, getting out of our car in our driveway, going for a jog, etc and guns don’t even have to be involved.

Other random thoughts I have/questions:

I wonder how many people were killed by the truck vs. like was he able to get any shots off and kill anyone with the gun? I know Krod said his brother was hit but seems like the police were there pretty quickly after impact/crash into the construction equipment. Maybe that’s been reported but I haven’t seen it yet.

I was wondering the same thing. There apparently were 15 fatalities and 30+ injured. I would think some of those were from gunfire.

CapitalCitySaint said
The US military gives foreigners & their families the chance to become US citizens via a lottery where they also have to serve in the military. I don’t know what the vetting process is for that but seems like it can create opportunities for certain ideologies to creep in. Not to mention our own citizens with their radical beliefs.

There definitely is a vetting process and it's not taken lightly at all. Whether the vetting process is sufficient can certainly be debated, but it's definitely part of the process.

CapitalCitySaint said
People like to think the US military has their sheet on lock. I know people in the military doing certain drugs because the military doesn’t test for them. I know of a civilian working in a certain position looking up records of people in the service for their own personal entertainment which I won’t go into detail over. Military members are making tik-toks on bases and all kinds of really dumb stuff.

The tiktok stuff is definitely a topic of discussion and debate, and there definitely are issues with corruption and other stuff that shouldn't be happening, but the military is a huge organization. With 1.3 million enlisted, and close to 3 million individuals work within the Department of Defense. Most take their jobs seriously, but there are a lot of knuckleheads among those 3 million people.

CapitalCitySaint said
Honestly, our military is a joke.

Some aspects are, sure, but it's really not any more of a joke than most large organizations.

CapitalCitySaint said
Not its capabilities but the lack of regulation on a lot of things and total lack of awareness around security and whatnot is really breathtaking.

There's a ton of security on any given military base, and there are extensive rules and regulations governing the behavior of both military and civilian employees not to mention contractors. That said, people are people and your security is only as good as the people responsible for said security.