Something that I find odd when thinking about the Moscow mass shooting. Not that they chose that target, it makes perfect sense, but instead that it doesn’t happen here. There aren’t really team shootings like the one that happened in Moscow taking place here despite millions of Muslims, many highly radicalized. Our mass shootings are almost exclusively “black guy(s) shoot into crowds, kills one, wounds 10” shootings or the very rare autistic kid on SSRIs that has been groomed by the Feds into shooting up some school or something.
It certainly isn’t a lack of targets.
Our local indoor mall has hundreds or thousands of people on a Saturday. We have high schools full of kids and guarded by a handful of “school resource officers”. Sporting events, festivals, on and on. I could spend ten minutes online and come up with a dozen places they could target within 30 minutes of where I am sitting. Very few places with lots of people are hardened targets, malls have rent-a-cops so silly they are a running gag and have been turned into feature films.
America is a very open society for travel. You could leave New York City this morning and be Chicago this evening with no problem. We don’t have checkpoints where you have to show your papers and are subject to search. Tens of millions of people flaunt the speed limit daily and very few are pulled over. I could pull up to the entrance of a local mall, put on my flashers and sit there for quite a long time before Paul Blart and company finally checked on me.
Guns and ammo are plentiful and easy to come by. Hells bells, every ‘hood Negro with a felony rap sheet as long as their legendary dingus has a Glock with a switch and a 27 round mag. Full auto “assault rifle” are hard to come by but you can spread carnage one shot at a time just as easily, perhaps more so, than mag dumping on full auto. You can buy body armor on the internet and the goodies for making explosive and/or incendiary devices aren’t hard to come by.
America should be a veritable cornucopia of soft targets for terrorists.
We have been told that we had to “fight them over there so we didn’t have to fight them here” as the excuse for decades of war in Afghanistan, Iraq and dozens of shadow conflicts we never hear about until a news blurb about special forces soldiers dying in some random Middle Eastern or African country. But we never really did fight them here. The “shoe bomber” I guess. Palestinian Major Nidal Hasan murdered 13 fellow soldiers at Fort Hood shortly before deploying to Afghanistan in 2009 but even then it was not prosecuted as terrorism. In 2016 Omar Mateen shot up a fag nightclub, killing 49 people. Personally I think he was a closeted fag although the FBI assures us he wasn’t a homo. Both of those were solo shootings, with no apparent coordination. They were just a couple of unhinged Muslims that snapped, not coordinated teams of Islamist terrorists.
That brings me back to my original question. America is the “Great Satan” and the protector/enabler of Israel, responsible for killing tens or hundreds of thousands of Muslim civilians in the “Global War on Terror”. Why has Russia been attacked as well as attacks in Europe but not the U.S.?
Perhaps it has to do with the armed American citizenry. That might be part of the equation. If you start randomly shooting people at an Indiana mall, multiple dudes will return fire pretty quickly. Then again these guys allegedly don’t fear becoming martyrs.
Or maybe the FBI and other agencies are so good at their jobs that they have thwarted these attacks before they happened. Nah, that is just ridiculous.
I don’t have an answer here. The idea of this has been in popular media for decades (ex. Chuck Norris in Invasion U.S.A.) and yet it never happens.
Why?
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I think it is a matter of time. Recently, 14 shipping containers containing weapons, ammunition, RPGs, and assorted material were found in Florida. Consider that less than 1% of the incoming containers get a search of any kind, and that translates into hundreds scattered around the country waiting for a team to get the GO signal. Now add the 200,000+ illegal Chinese military aged males that came across our border with Biden's wink and a nod. Disaster on the horizon.
I think you're onto something with 'armed citizens'. Public spaces may look like a soft target but if a dozen individuals are armed the odds drop drastically for would be 'mass shooter' exiting alive.