14 thoughts on “Perpetrator Named in Nashville Christmas Bombing

  1. Periodically, there comes up a thread where someone asks “hey, Engineers! If you wanted to do something, what would you do?” There were always sub-categories of “what if I didn’t want to get caught”, “what if I didn’t mind going to prison”, and “what if I didn’t mind dying in the attempt”.

    And there’s usually one or two interesting comments before someone says “QUIT GIVING THEM IDEAS!”

    Anyway, I’m pretty sure that this was adjacent to one of the interesting comments.Report

    1. Honestly, the biggest thing stopping non-engineers from being destructive at an engineering level is doing the math. I don’t mind “giving them ideas” because most don’t have the math or science background to execute the idea without step by step instructions (which also means that should they encounter a hiccup, they can’t adjust to overcome it).Report

        1. If you want to get elected president, run on the platform of deploying sufficiently good sensor and processing tech that walking through a ten-foot-long tunnel is sufficient screening. No taking off your shoes, no removing your belt and keys and coins, take your carry-on bag through with you. Landslide victory.Report

        2. That’s the thing about security, you can only have so much before it becomes more trouble than it’s worth and everyone stops taking it seriously.

          But even basic security should catch the enthusiastic idiot. It’s the smart guy they’ll only catch by happenstance.Report

      1. Ah, the infamous “person skilled in the art” from patent law. I’m just a systems guy: how do/can the parts fit together, how does/can the process work, granted for a wide range of parts and processes. (Also with low tastes for certain kinds of math, real time software, and public policy.) I’ve always said that what makes me a good systems guy is that I know when it’s time to go talk to a real expert.Report

  2. “FBI special agent Doug Korneski said Sunday that there is no indication of additional suspects” Yeah, like they’d really tell us IF there were additional suspects.Report

  3. This story has been around the twitters, but I haven’t seen it here yet

    https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/crime/2020/12/29/nashville-explosion-woman-warned-mnpd-warner-building-bomb-2019/4082253001/

    “Girlfriend warned Nashville police Anthony Warner was building bomb a year ago, report shows“

    (Also, that lawyer is probably going to have some explaining to do. He denies the part of the story where he defended Warner against the police searching his property, but there’s another story where he seems to be the lawyer on several different sides of the contact when Warner signed over his property a few months ago)Report

    1. Lots of online folks seem to think the police did their job, tarred the girlfriend for being mentally unstable and we should all move on. Which – if true – means we have learned nothing since Oklahoma City about how to thwart domestic terrorists. Yeah team.Report

      1. It’s interesting to me how Nashville police didn’t think they could get a search warrant after being told a person is making bombs, but Louisville police could get one because a woman might be getting packages for an old boyfriend who sells drugs.

        Priorities?Report

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