French couple stabbed to death by ISIS volunteer: no AR-15 involved.

[A Little Weird]

49. I'm glad you brought up 9/11

After terrorists hijacked planes and killed a bunch of people, we recognized that that was a thing that could happen. Most of us had never looked at an airplane as a weapon before. But after the twin towers went down, we decided to tighten up the rules for flying. Now you have to go through massive security to get on a plane. The cabin doors are locked and reinforced. People get put on a 'no-fly list' if law enforcement thinks they may possibly be terrorists. In short, it's a whole lot more difficult now to hijack a plane than it was prior to 9/11.

Contrast that with one of the many mass shootings. We all know guns are weapons that can kill. That's what they were designed for. But instead of making them difficult for terrorists (unstable assholes, spurned lovers, whatever) to get, our bought-and-paid-for politicians make sure nobody can pass a single piece of legislation to tighten up restrictions. They even made a point of making sure that if you land on the 'no-fly list' you can still buy a gun.

Gun control will not stop terrorism. On this we agree. But it would make it a whole fuck of a lot more difficult to carry out.