Didn't mean it to come off as an attack, its more of a question I struggle with. Take gun control, for example. Seems paradoxical to me to call for the government to take action against guns when they've shown time and time again that they're not capable of taking action effectively. See: the war on drugs, the war on terror, police brutality, etc.
In a perfect world I agree that America should have far less guns, and its the government job to enforce that. In this world, though, I have little to no faith that they would enforce stricter gun control without they're regular profiling/racism/etc.
That's why you don't leave people who don't see the action as important in positions of power.....
My point in bringing up the family reporting the threat is to highlight the importance of man power vs technology. Idiots get gassed when they hear in political speeches that the budget is going to provide x amount of dollars to modernize system y. It's the worker shortage within these national security positions that creates these lapses.
Gun control isn't about pushing a new policy across the desk, stepping back, and letting gravity take control. It's about pushing a policy, hiring the right people who believe in the policy, voting out those who don't get the fukkn policy, and removing everyone who wants to undermine the new policy.
The people matter as much as the policy. You have the ACA on the books and it's falling apart because who is in control of the budget? You have Civil Rights laws on the books and no consistency in how they're enforced because who continues to dismantle the Civil Rights division of the DOJ and appoint conservatives to federal court?
Who in their right mind would want a fukkn republican running the cou-

never mind.....