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Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Re: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Post by nwh »

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> Why does the message point you to emergency.mit.net? IS&T has secured a mirror image of the emergency page on servers physically located in other off campus geographic locations. This is important in the event that a problem on campus made the MIT servers non-operational. The “.net” location would allow you to have access to the information relative to the emergency on campus.

From: http://emergency.mit.net/emergency/whynet.html

Re: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

While I do hope this turns out to be a false alarm as below, the fact I know about this from the UK and can mail my friends visiting to check on them is to me seeing the glimmers of a worldwide immune system for humankind, able to react instantly.

Again, do not wish to detract from a potentially dangerous situation - just from 3000 miles away my second reaction was to be glad our grandchildren will live in a qualitatively different world.

Re: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Post by fakeer »

Good that the man was not found there(in a sense that no one was harmed).

I still would like to understand few things.

Of course I shall not be able to understand how it feels to have a gun when you want it(and afterwards take a decision on how to use it. To defend yourself or flash in malls or kill children for fun or out of depression) as I live in a country where having fire-arms is either a luxury for powerful and rich (mainly because of license red tape and high license fee) and operational equipment for criminals.

But I still don't understand that how can guns be allowed in such a manner when they don't let you handle a gas cylinder at a public place or a take a metallic fork on an air-plane. I mean I just want to understand the logic behind it, if there's anything other than the logic that "the gun lobby makes sure it's open" - just like the tobacco lobby the world over even though it's perfectly clear that it causes cancer(i.e. it kills).

I mean this just doesn't add up. There's some reason you have police, military, para-military and federal agencies so that citizens don't have to handle this aspect of security.

There's one more doubt - is it as easy and as simple to get a gun in USA as it's projected in films or in the media? That looks like going to a store and asking for a new mobile handset. Maybe the latter is more complex.

Re: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Post by cbau »

fakeer wrote: post #6

Good that the man was not found there(in a sense that no one was harmed). I still would like to understand few things. Of course I shall not be able to understand how it feels to have a gun when you want it(and afterwards take a decision on how to use it. To defend yourself or flash in malls or kill children for fun or out of depression) as I live in a country where having fire-arms is either a luxury for powerful an…

It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.

Re: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Post by cnlwsu »

fakeer wrote: post #6

Good that the man was not found there(in a sense that no one was harmed). I still would like to understand few things. Of course I shall not be able to understand how it feels to have a gun when you want it(and afterwards take a decision on how to use it. To defend yourself or flash in malls or kill children for fun or out of depression) as I live in a country where having fire-arms is either a luxury for powerful an…

phones are more expensive

Re: Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

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Post by JoeAltmaier »

cbau wrote: post #7
fakeer wrote: post #6

Good that the man was not found there(in a sense that no one was harmed). I still would like to understand few things. Of course I shall not be able to understand how it feels to have a gun when you want it(and afterwards take a decision on how to use it. To defend yourself or flash in malls or kill children for fun or out of depression) as I live in a country where having fire-arms is either a luxury for powerful an…

It's pretty simple-- As an American, I have a right to the life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. I don't want to give up any rights I don't have to. That includes the freedom to buy and carry a gun.

But I DO have to give up the right to travel without being strip-searched. A nation of paradoxes.
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