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| DATE | 2015-12-07 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] anyone want to write a letter to the editor?
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http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/editorial-making-mass-murder-easy-article-1.2454576
It becomes clearer with each revelation about the San Bernardino
massacre
that America has made itself a soft, wide target for murderers,
including Islamist radicals, which is what it increasingly appears the
two killers in this case were.
Murder here is easy to commit — because weapons and ammunition that tear
at human flesh are easily obtainable. And once murder is committed, it
is far harder to solve than it should be — because the devices that are
repositories for incriminating evidence are increasingly beyond the
reach of law enforcement.
Police on Thursday reported that all four weapons used by killer Syed
Farook and his wife-accomplice, Tashfeen Malik — two assault rifles and
two handguns — were bought legally.
The two had a guerrilla-sized stockpile at home
:
a staggering 2,000 rounds of 9-mm. bullets and 2,500 rounds of
.223-caliber rifle ammunition.
Also in the home: 12 pipe bombs and hundreds of tools that could be used
to build IEDs or pipe bombs.
The Daily News front page for Dec. 4, 2015
The Daily News front page for Dec. 4, 2015
In what country is it legal to collect enough weaponry to go to war? In
ours, thanks to gun laws crafted and protected by lawmakers obedient to
the National Rifle Association.
In a sane world, Farook may well have been barred from buying a weapon
legally — which would have forced him at least to risk arrest by looking
to arm himself on the black market.
We know this because, also yesterday, officials revealed that Farook had
been in active touch with people being investigated by the FBI for
international terrorism.
This is precisely the type of activity that lands individuals on the
FBI’s terror watch list. Yet Congress, bowing to the NRA, refuses to
prevent those on the list from buying guns — resisting a proposed ban
that President George W. Bush wisely started pushing in 2007.
Front page of the New York Daily News for December 3, 2015 about the
shooting at San Bernardino that left 12 dead at a holiday banquet.
Daily News covers on mass shootings since Sandy Hook.
Daily News covers on mass shootings since Sandy Hook.
Daily News covers on mass shootings since Sandy Hook.
View Gallery Daily News covers on mass shootings since Sandy Hook
Sen. Chuck Schumer brought the matter to a vote yesterday
.
It failed, as did a fresh effort to impose universal background checks
on gun sales.
Which brings us to the second way America is its own worst enemy in the
fight against gun-fueled mass murder, including of the terrorist kind.
Virtually all contemporary communications take place via cell phone,
computer or tablet. (Landlines are potentially subject to wiretaps and,
at least until recently, had suspect metadata — from and to phone
numbers — collected by the NSA.)
Yet monitoring of Internet chats, calls and file exchanges is spotty,
and all these are increasingly migrating to encrypted channels out of
law enforcement’s reach.
Enough David Bauman/AP
Enough
Police in San Bernardino recovered thumb drives, hard drives and cell
phones from Farook’s home, from which they may well be able to obtain
leads about the couple’s motives and track down potential collaborators
and instigators.
*EDITORIAL: WHEN WILL AMERICA WAKE UP?
*
None of that recovery would be possible had all the information been
stored on an encrypted device like those now being sold by Apple and
Google. Not even with a warrant, or two, or 20.
They can only be unlocked by their owner. Even if their owner has just
been killed having completed a suicide terrorist mission. Madness.
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