Lots of breast-beating on the comment page today about lax security, open borders and the religious fantatic's ability to travel 1,000 kilometers without detection;  the fact that there are no border checkpoints and armed guard between, say, Belgium and France, France and Germany, Italy and France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovakia, etc., etc. 

Nothing's going to really prevent the religiously-motivated radicals nor the mentally unstable from doing what they want to do, where they want to do it. Razor-wire barriers, guards with dogs and automatic weapons will only mean this: carnage at the border installations (great targets for suicide bombers) and more carnage within a single country.  Like we've already seen.  

What we have also learned is--border installations or not--Italy was on the alert, pulled the guy over and attempted to apprehend him.  

Empty rhetoric from empty heads.