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Just heard an ABC anchorman call this the worst terror attack in American history . . . It’s a little soon to be rewriting the history books isn’t it? Guess not if it fits the narrative.
Those were done with box cutters and a truck. 404:narrative not found.
He must have forgotten that little incident in NYC, or even the one in OKC, but as long as it fits the narrative right?
Assault religion has to be banned.
Islam needs to go.
Surprised fearless leader hasn’t proclaimed this “workplace violence” yet
A couple of questions for the AI;
1) It took about three hours for SWAT to enter and kill the gunman; how many of the 50 dead were killed by the SWAT assault? Separately, why wait three hours to engage? Seems like a lot of time.
2) This was not a “hostage taking” attack as it appears that this Jihadi was interested only in killing as many as possible. So why is the press buying the “hostage” theory? Also, this was not anything other than a well planned and executed terrorist attack.
The whole point of a “well-planned terrorist attack” is to pick a soft target, preferably a Gun Free Zone, with a large number of helpless targets and a limited number of egress points. By definition this also means a limited number of ingress points and makes the job of responding officers extremely hazardous. As much as they like to appear military your average LEO and even local SWAT guys, do not have the mindset of mounting a blazing frontal assault on a defended target, especially when there are innocent civilians possibly in the line of fire.
This is a problem that public venues need to spend more time addressing and police agencies need to consider in their training. If you had been on that street, outside that club, and heard rapid semi-auto fire from inside, how anxious would you have been to burst through a narrow entryway into a dark and unknown space?
“The whole point of a “well-planned terrorist attack” is to pick a soft target, preferably a Gun Free Zone, with a large number of helpless targets and a limited number of egress points.”
Yep. In Florida your CCW does now allow carry in establishments that serve alcohol. So effectively, this was a gun free zone. A barrel with lots of impaired fish swimming in it.
It seems to me that any obvious armed security is the primary target of the attacker. Until security is dealt with you would not have a true Gun Free Zone.
Placing a single security guard in a known position but without visibility sufficient to warn of an attack is useless and suicidal. At the very least place a clear Lexan shield between the guard and the entrance that will stop initial gunfire and allow some possibility of reacting to the threat before you die. Seems to work okay for banks. There is no good reason for anyone walking in the door to have a clear field of fire to the only armed security officer.
To borrow from a once-popular song, “People get ready, there’s a train a’ comin’ “.
This is not just a regular summer. This is berserker time, general election year. This episode is not likely to fade in a few weeks, as San Bernardino. This one will have legs right up to November. Expect the greatest assault on gun rights we have seen in years. Emotion is going to be overwhelming. This massacre is not going to lead the “undecided” to our ranks.
Never let a trajedy go to waste.