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

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.

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.

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.

Honestly, our military is a joke. 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.
My understanding is that he wasn’t planning on crashing and when he did my brother and 2 other officers were at his truck before he could react. Shooting started and my brother and the 2 other officers killed him while he hit my brother and another officer. I think the crane being there and the reaction of the police stopped him from unloading the assault rifle on civilians and detonating the bombs. This is the story I’m getting.