there may be a more complex plan afoot. they have to start with that proposition. i was just in las vegas yesterday, stayed at a big casino hotel. there are thousands of people coming and going. if i would have hauled repeated suitcases full of folded up ar-15s into that hotel room, certainly no one would have paid any notice. the harder part, i think, in some respects is the ammunition. because it s much heavier. it s bulkier than a folded weapon that you can break down with two pins. that takes you two seconds to fold up a weapon and put knit a suitcase. or ten in a suitcase. not that complicated. but this is vegas though. think of the sites you see in las vegas. everywhere you turn is a spectacle. you don t notice because that s the town you re in. exactly right. who would pay attention to, you know, an otherwise unremarkable person like this going back and forth two or three times to the
specific goal of trying to make sure that it doesn t happen again in the future. or if there s a plan afoot, you will know what to look for. the other thing that paul said that was fascinating is the increased use of the point to point encryption systems that are commercially available. anybody can download them from the app store of your choice. which really give terrorists and others who are trying to hide from the intercept capabilities, it s really pretty good protection and has thwarted the attempts of intelligence and law enforcement to predict when the next attack is going to be. that s a real growing problem. it s this clash that we have between open societies, how much are you going to monitor your citizens, how much are you big brother and try to figure out what s going on in communications, their movements, whether they are subject to searches right on the streets, all of which provides you better protection against terrorist