[EggsAckley]

We are catching way too many suspects up here in Minneapolis.

The fact that you're catching them is a GOOD thing. Let's hope that other cities do the same.

[Casloy]

Arm the teachers. I'd rather have a gun battle than a slaughter.

[TommyDale]

I fear that any such attack on American children like the one in Russia would be met with a very angry mob toward the perpetrators. Most likely it would end in instant justice.

[gopwinsin04]

Arm the teachers and contsruct bulletproof 'safe rooms' in the schools...

[AmericanInTokyo]

We've looked at this as an islamofascist tactical option in the US, posted here on FR nearly three years ago. We got into the minds of the terrorist to do it. What started the discussion, later, was the total panic and chaos that the Washington D.C. sniper caused to the national capital area as well, and how they could paralyze the national mindset by one well timed and coordinated and televised atrocity against American schoolchildren in the American heartland in some unsuspecting, small town that had minimal security and hadn't the slightest thought they could even be the target of international muslim terrorism.

[BenLurkin]

Maybe Michelle Malkin is right.

[texasbluebell]

Laura Ingraham has been talking about this on her radio program this morning.

www.ksky.com then click on Listen Live.

"We thought there was a line that would be drawn, and you wouldn't see children targeted."

And talking about the boys' school in Afghanistan that was blown up over the weekend.

[cyclotic]

This is another reason to immediately remove all your children from schools and home educate.

Our school is too small to be a target, just four students. the teacher has a small variety of defensive weapons at her disposal. Some of the student body is somewhat proficient as well.

[jtminton]

This will never happen in America because guns aren't allowed in school. There is a law preventing it.

/sarc

[Dems_R_Losers]

The most scary thing to me is that many schools in America are polling places. After 9/11, I was frantic with worry about the safety of my kids' school. It was a polling place and there was virtually no security. (This was in Virginia, where there are odd-year elections.) The polling station was in the gym, reached through a rear entrance off the main street. I saw right away that someone with a car bomb could easily drive right up to it unnoticed and blow 400 kids and teachers to bits. I called the school board and the police department and demanded that police in cruisers be stationed at the rear entrance to the school, and that uniformed, armed cops be posted at the front of the school. I was rebuffed at first but kept at it, and they finally agreed to do it.

Imagine the combination of a school massacre and the deaths of dozens of poll workers and voters on Election Day! Yes, it would be too late to have an impact on the election itself, but would you want to be the President or the President-Elect that night, knowing that you cannot even celebrate your victory because you immediately have to deal with the slaughter of hundreds of children? What if John Kerry is elected on a day when this happens? Would millions of voters immediately have second thoughts and wish they had voted to reelect President Bush?

[tkathy]

I am afraid that a slaughter of our soldiers is being planned before the election!!!

[CDHart]

Background checks can be defeated with enough planning.

I work for a skilled nursing facility and we are required to do two background checks on new hires. The efficient bureaucracy was behind by about four months, and we had an employee during that four months who had previously been convicted of child abuse. But the background checks are performed so sloppily that one cannot rely on them. Of course, we're still required to do them -- state has to make money somehow.

Carolyn

[jpsb]

Average American have better arms and are probably better shots then the terrorists, any takeover of an American school would not last long, the local Sherif would in short order have an over whemling force of men willing and able to take out the terrorists. It is the American way.

[cynicom]

I think odds are that nothing will happen before the election. If Bush wins, all bets are off.

[Delta 21]

Better to spill Islamic blood in the streets of Faluja, Najaf, Baghdad, or Chechnia than anywhere within the borders of the United States.

VOTE BUSH in 2004.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Now, what if some less suspicious "white-looking" Chechen, or female, or some local recruit(s) starts driving school bus and and shows for work up one day and rigs a bus full of kids with explosives?

I believe Inspector Callahan knew how to handle a similar situation.

[tjg]

How about a link to the article you quote? Thanks.

[MoJo2001]

"I Fear"

This is exactly what they want. They want everyone in the world to fear something like this happening to their children. Keep in mind that everyone will be on the lookout for such strange behaviors. I think I read somewhere that the terrorists had been smuggling ammo in for months. No one noticed. In America, we are now on alert for such activities. And if anyone sees something like this...I think you'll hear about it after the terrorists have been shot and killed.

[Muzzle_em]

I've thought of another "soft-target" for terrorists.
What if they coordinated a plan to attack many large churches in this country one Sunday. It would be extremely easy for them to do and unfortunately, they'd get a HUGE pat on the back from the Christian-hating left in the U.S.

[steplock]

Isn't Minnesota one of those northern states that hates the Boy Scouts, but adores having their own islamic jihadist boy indoctrination camps?