Gun violence in America. unfortunately. is not novel. We read about it every day. and we see it on the news. But it struck me as odd when I heard about this case because. if you will rememberand I think I have the sequence correctlya resident of the Nation of Lebanon came to the United States on a nonimmigrant visa. such as a tourist visa. When he arrived in the United States. he visited the State of Florida. which has relatively lax laws in terms of the purchase of firearms. He bought a firearm in Florida. took it up to the Empire State Building. and gunned down several innocent people. other tourists at the Empire State Building.