Still finding it difficult to write anything. We've reached a point of annoying stasis in the political world, which the events in Las Vegas have underscored. The lefties I know are still calling for gun control, but they know they can't have it, so they just get on with their virtue signaling and self-talk. The NFL thing is dying down. I suppose we could ask why U.S. special forces are getting killed in Niger, but first we'd have to ask people to find it on a map.
It's a roundabout way of saying you've got an open thread.
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It is an ugly stasis, for sure, led by people standing for solutions they know won't solve the problem they're trying use as justification. Ghoulish, really.
It would be really refreshing if people would instead admit that one cannot keep every harmful thing out of the country altogether, and hence it would be smarter to consider how one can reduce the likelihood of them being used in a harmful/lethal way in large public spaces.
In the 1950's a fighter pilot named John Boyd began teaching a process for decision making in aerial combat that has become known as the OODA loop. The letters represent the actions required: observe, orient, decide and act. The loop comes in to recognize this is not a singular event, rather an ongoing process in response to the actions of the other combatant.
The critical parts of this process are accuracy of the decision and speed in the action, if your decisions are correct and faster than your opponent you have a higher probability of success in the engagement.
As you observe, there seems to be a paralysis in the political decision process where neither party is willing to act on the changing information before them. It is almost as if Boyd's loop has been replaced by a carousel and no one is willing to stop it and get off.
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