Don't get me wrong, but I think things are out of whack. I think that's it's absolutely terrible that four Marines were killed.
Yet, For all the money we've spent on monitoring communications in the US, we have another instance of some "radicalized" nutjob getting all shootie, and the investigating authorities have promised to leave no stone unturned to find out "why". They should be able to quickly replay the tapes and know the "why".
Also, I caught part of the news conference. Maybe it was the parade of officials to include the BATFEIO, or perhaps the US District Attorney that said it was "A Terrorist" investigation, which was the highest level of investigation or somesuch and that they would spare no expense to investigate. (Umm, hey there Sparky, but the shooter is dead. Good idea to find who he associated with and the like, but otherwise not much to investigate. )
Now, there are driveby shootings like this in Chicago every weekend. One, two, three, four, five or more people being killed, yet the FBI, BATFEIO, et al aren't drug into those investigations. And of the pathetic number of arrests made, how many are for "Felon in Possession" ?? And of that pathetic number how many are actually convicted of FIP and sent away to serve long, long terms ? Anybody? Anybody? Bueller?
It just struck me that we've really gone through the looking glass. It would appear that our security theater is complete. The .gov is no longer concerned with protecting the people. It's concerned with protecting the .gov and ordinary people getting killed are just
"Little things" that are an inconvenience on their way to building better worlds.