Discussion for article #243587
Americans are understandably disturbed to learn about this seemingly “normal” couple with their young child and seemingly mainstream life, who apparently managed to avoid giving anyone the impression that they were likely to carry out a terrorist attack, until one day they did. It IS disturbing. But they are far from the first violent criminals who weren’t violent criminals, until one day they were.
This does point up holes in the U.S. vetting process, of course. They were jihadists and they got through the system…
Yes, though he was an American citizen, and she may have been able to fly under the radar even with greater scrutiny. But the issue of better vetting is a lot like the issue of better gun regulations – no legislation will ever stop all tragedies, but we should do what we can (within what’s constitutional) to reduce the number.
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