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The point being that there were many events that were prevented BEFORE they happened because of information like this.

The Time Square bomber would be one example.

The difficult question would be this: What steps could be done to prevent this without proceeding into a totalitarian state?




On a side note, I always laugh at people who say that the reason that guns are allowed is so that they can protect themselves, and that the only way to protect yourself is to have the right to have them with you at all times. So at an event like this, where people are ALLOWED to have firearms, not a single person pulled one out to fire back at the guy.

I bet they all felt safer knowing they could have if they wanted to.