CNSay,
The fact that the WEAPONS SAFE was targeted might be a red flag, no?
furthermore, (though I concede it’s sort of an appeal to authority), this is QUOTED from the NY State Senator. One would HOPE (HA!) that a State Senator would have his facts in order before making a public announcement.

WAKE THE F*CK UP. The Matrix is REAL – it doesn’t need a “machine” enemy, it’s been woven around our eyes as we grew up. And other humans are the only natural predators humans have…
The whole point of our government is to turn you into an “economic unit” (read: BATTERY) and use you to power “their” economic wealth. And when you are old and burnt out, they’ll just replace you with a newer model, if the job isn’t fully automated, at a lower cost, too. And you can go to Obamacare Interrment (No misspelling) where your final time on this earth will be pain-free – and brief. “Managed Care” and all that – managed right to death. Can’t let those useless Seniors tell the kiddies how it USED to be, or have anyone alive who remembers how the worled REALLY WAS, instead of how it’s presented on History Channel and in the CAIR-approved History books.

I used to think the fringe/paranoid/tinfoil-hat brigade were crazy. Now I realize they were marginalized, and PROBABLY were on to something. There’s a REASON Tesla was discredited – but no one can even see lots of his research, it’s STILL “classified” now. WTF? And how much do we actually KNOW about Marconi, or Edison, or even Einstein? What we read in “their” approved books, right?

The more I read, the more I begin to think: MOST people WANT to be asleep. The rest of us end up on one pole or the other: Part of the power structure (problem) or by default, in rebellion because we can TELL there’s SOMETHING going on – but can’t figure out WHAT. We work our asses off and just see our wealth disappear (higher taxes; inflation; devalued investments). Not intentional, just the way things work. But we see revolutionary biotech and chimical articles, and military predictions (Comanche, anyone? Battle Mechs?), and “The world of Tomorrow” (Old World’s Fair ride moved to EPCOT center in Florida), and we wonder: That stuff is 15, 20, even 50+ YEARS old! We have more computing capacity in our smart phone than the Apollo astronauts did! and THEY went to the MOON! what do we do? Dunno about anyone else, the “high point” of my day is getting effing Starbucks in the morning… Because while I’m busy WORKING, some worthless shmuck is climbing the corporate ladder, and getting REWARDED for short-changing my team – but as long as the team hasn’t stopped producing, HE GETS REWARDED… And if WE slip a date, WE get punished. (For those “in the know” – I’m running a Windows XP rig to do load testing with Loadrunner 11.0.4; We have desktops for generators, and two controllers. Core i5s with 4 GB ram, downgraded from Windows 7. Just stopped enforcing IE 7 compatibility LAST YEAR. Upgrades – which though I keep pushing for server systems, will likely be more desktops, as in: “minimal cost” – are due for CONSIDERATION in Q3 this year, when Windows 7 testing and acquisistion will commence. We’re a top-5 financial institution, and we’re running this like a Mom and Pop computer Store selling IBM-clones in the late 80s.)
Short version of the aside: Hardware is 5 years out of date, software 10+, and we can’t even get input into what will replace the old, or get a decent answer of WHEN.

And try to talk to the boss’s boss, might as well piss up a rope. Doesn’t want to hear it. and they NEVER DO. Walk in with (a) defined problem, (b) definite solution, (c) cost estimate, get told it’s not worthwhile, or it’s in the works, or we’ll get back to you, don’t you have work to do?

And from talking to other people in other fields – it’s that way ACROSS THE BOARD.

So let’s play devil’s advocate, someone goes off the deep end. They take a shotgun and go shoot up a bank. total dead (no armed responders on site) maybe 7 people. 3 are customers, 4 are employees, 3 were tellers, and one the branch manager. Our psycho gets away, say – though it doesn’t matter.

The bank will…..
1) compensate everyone harmed (or their estate),
2) Apologize to the victims’ families for poor security,
3) back stricter gun control measures,
4) Hire new manager and tellers and forget it ever happened.

Multiple choice, BTW – Correct answer is, of course, #4. Likely put financial support behind #3 via a front group (Brady, for example). But admit wrongdoing as a proximate cause? Admit that they cannot provide the safety without armed guards? Admit they cannot stop lunatics? Change public policy, or even address the impoverishment of US Citizens from their predatory policies? Nope, never. Not going to cut the CEO’s pay, nor the board’s, nor the C*O (i, e, t, f, etc.), nor the stockholder dividends. And if it’s corporate, same deal – shoot up a corporate branch, even IF 30+ were dead – same results. We just provide grief counsellors and put everyone back in their “box,” working for the Company… Can’t lose the PROFIT…

The shooter becomes immaterial, as does the method of assault: I worked at an ADP facility, won’t say where: After 9/11, they put in a gate house. Standard, mechanical-arm gate, with a person in the gatehouse to ask why you were there, who you were going to see. Not even a cement pole to limit safe transit – and on a straightaway, too. Nice, circular driveway, and the building curved around it – all the Execs were in that building.
So – someone wants to do damage? They drive a truckload of explosives down the main road, no stop at the gatehouse, and either leave it and run (highway right nearby), or detonate while in danger zone. Building (and employees) gone. Corporate change? New recruiting effort, move offices to new buidling, and rebuild the one destroyed. Business moves on, nothing changes.

I’ll bet you STILL don’t get it, though. Still can’t accept there’s a smokescreen and things going on that are JUST outside your scope of vision.