Bill Gates had exactly the same opportunity. It turns out that when you’re rich and never have to worry about a single thing in your life it gives you room to be very creative.

And amazingly it’s not a question of intelligence, but rather tenacity. It’s really a lot of time and work but most people could do it if they had the willingness and opportunity.

That’s a cop out. There are plenty of terrible people in that state.

Seriously they deserve what they get for not appreciating what they had.

I’m going to guess that you dislike signs that warn of danger. Or warnings about keeping plastic bags away from babies. Those exist for exactly this reason. Warnings about being careful not to leave children in hot cars exist for this exact reason.

You should read how it works.

The DEA literally gets funding based on arrests and that’s without oversight. Hmm.

And yet how many stories like this have we seen this year? A state legislator was arrested over this as well.

Where’d I say that they weren’t responsible? I’m saying I can see how it could happen. It’s unclear why this bothers you.

I don’t have or want a gun. I think they are stupid. I’m just saying that I get how it could happen.

And yet, this keeps happening so it may actually be difficult.

I agree that it's not. But adjusting what you do can protect you from this sort of thing.

I carry a pocket knife and a BIC lighter for utility needs. I have nearly forgotten to take out the pocket knife before leaving for the airport. I have also seen other stories like this, so I decided that my courier bag for travel is not the same one I use daily.

Oh, me too. Hi young Gen X/old Millenial.

I think I must have accidentally figured this all out in high school. This is good proof that everyone has different experiences.

I am making an assumption that you grew up with something like an iPad. This isn't your fault, you had no reason to learn it before. Now that you have a need to do these things, you figured it out by accident just through exposure.

They traveled with their normal bag they go around with in regular life. Lesson: NEVER TRAVEL WITH THE BAG YOU CARRY AROUND DAILY because you will forget what's in there.

When you go into someone's house, you follow their rules.

How about the governors suggest that their residents don't travel internationally with ammunition?

This is pretty much exactly the same thing: a group of people observing the world change around them can't handle it so they are going to destroy as many lives as possible on their way to irrelevancy.

There's no end to the search for control.