Two Boys

Two boys:

Age:  19
Citizenship: American
Crime: "Terrorism"
No. of Deaths: 3

Age:  20
Citizenship: American
Crime: Murder

No. of deaths: 26

We need to think long and hard about our reaction to the actions of these two young men.

With respect to the first one, over the last 12 years we have built up a vast surveillance state designed to identify and track people who might commit crimes such as the one he committed.  We have been willing to sacrifice our privacy and our rights to due process, and consented to the creation of what can only be described as an increasingly militarized police state, in order to prevent people like him from being able to harm us.

With respect to the second one, over the last 30 years, we have made it increasingly easy for people to commit crimes like the one he committed.  We have been totally unwilling to concede an inch as far as our rights to arm ourselves to the teeth, and have made it illegal for the government to identify and track people who might commit crimes like the one he committed.

Can somebody please explain this to me?