[PowderMonkey]

"...either create secure perimeters around the locations or allow civilians to carry their own guns to protect themselves."

He already knows the answer to that. There is no such thing as a secure perimeter. There is only a redoubt. The rest is just buying time. During my time with that organization, its HQ in Lyon, France was hit by a Bombay/Kenya style attack, proving if they can't get inside the wire, they'll just hose the place down at a distance from the parking lot, and take you out as you arrive for work. Defense is not a winning strategy. You have to take the fight to the enemy, and make him fear you.

[headstamp 2]

“Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man”

George S. Patton