I'm not worried about terrorists anymore

HILLSBOROUGH -- A letter police found in Mohammed Taheri-Azar's bedroom said he wanted to kill Americans but that driving a rented sport utility vehicle through a crowded campus plaza was not his first choice.

With family members sitting behind the 22-year-old, sometimes crying on one another's shoulders, a police investigator read the typed letter during a hearing Friday in Orange County District Court.

"I would instead use a handgun to murder the citizens and residents of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, but the process of receiving a permit for a handgun in this city is highly restricted and out of my reach at present, most likely due to my foreign nationality," university police Investigator Matthew Dodson read. Full story

This guy, this terrorist mastermind that planned his attack months beforehand, couldn't figure out how to buy a handgun. In America. In the south. In Chapel Hill, which is near Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro and many other places that you could quite literally take an afternoon, walk around for a few hours with a bit of cash, and come home with any number of pistols.

His plan was to murder as many people as possible, but a simple gun law stopped him from getting a firearm. A gun law during the Bush administration. I can legally buy assault weapons and Mohammed can't figure out how to get ahold of a saturday night special. Theft wasn't an option? Craigslist? Ebay? Ever been to a gun show? Did you even Google the word gun?

Worst. Terrorist. Ever.