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View submission: An Open Letter to the Reddit Community
Was there an issue with transportation security on September 10th? Why would we not want to be proactive after seeing the damage in Europe?
Comment by thr3sk at 31/01/2017 at 01:44 UTC
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Why would we not want to be proactive after seeing the damage in Europe?
I agree many European countries should have stricter screening for immigrants/refugees, but we had that - since 9/11 just about every terror attack was done by people born in the US (Orlando, Fort Hood, San Bernadino), this ban doesn't address that at all.
If anything, it makes matters worse as it will serve as an amazing recruitment tool for extremist groups like ISIS, who are trying to paint the conflict as a new "Crusade" by the West against Islam, and actions like this make it very easy for them to spin it that way. Trump has already been featured in some of their recruitment videos.
Plus look at all the people in this country who are upset about this ban - just for argument's sake let's say there are a million people who are angry about it (spoiler - it's more than that), if even 0.001% of them are of the "mentally unstable" and "prone to violence" types that's 10 potential terror attacks. I have to say I felt a lot safer from terror attacks under Obama.
Comment by Emery96 at 31/01/2017 at 01:36 UTC*
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And the way to be 'proactive' is to place an outright ban on nationals from 7 select nations? That's not being proactive; that's being racist.
Comment by Strich-9 at 31/01/2017 at 04:06 UTC
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Europe is still safer than the US, fyi