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> Our security theater apparatus largely works because nobody is trying to kill a president

Eh, it’s halfway decent at thwarting schemes. Where it fails—where most law enforcement and counterterrorism fails—is in the lone-wolf case. (I’ll call it the Wallace’s dilemma.)



It worked for Ford, it sort of worked for Reagan--he was gravely wounded, but hit with only one bullet rather than several.




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