Gunshots, one after the next, echoed from a nearby room as Bill Vinduska, the owner of Bullseye, a gun store and indoor shooting range, explained why revolvers, gun training courses, security systems and Mace are suddenly selling so well in an otherwise friendly city like this.
Of course, security problems are nothing new.
Of course, security concerns are immensely important.
"Of course, security will be humongous," he said.
Of course security will be tighter; understandably some cities are erecting concrete blocks at the entrance to their shopping areas.
In Arabic, he cheerfully commented on how busy the activists against the Assad government were in all walks of life — public services, media and, of course, security.
Of course, security issues cannot be ignored when nationalism and growing mistrust among Asian nations are raising tensions and threatening regional economic progress.
For the three uniformed men travelling with Moore were, of course, security guards — as Moore did not deny when asked later on (though they also functioned as assistants).
There were, of course, security concerns: how was it possible, with all the control measures, for such a person to be in close proximity to world leaders?
Of course, security issues can destabilise the political process, as we have seen time and time again, but now the Iraqi people have the last say.
Having made her presence felt, despite not actually approaching Woods, the streaker then managed to evade the course security, and she reportedly managed to escape the course without being stopped at all.
