[PowderMonkey]

Mumbai-styled attack? Tactical failure. Big time. I can think of more than a few places around here where that would be a very short and decisive fire fight. The perps would be taking fire from all points of the compass. Most likely ended before the cops arrive, with the dead perps propped up and posed in the bed of somebody’s pickup truck.

[billhilly]

“The perps would be taking fire from all points of the compass”

That sounds like a circular firing squad.

[PapaBear3625]

Mumbai-styled attack? Tactical failure. Big time. I can think of more than a few places around here where that would be a very short and decisive fire fight. The perps would be taking fire from all points of the compass. Most likely ended before the cops arrive, with the dead perps propped up and posed in the bed of somebody’s pickup truck.

One extremely-vulnerable class of targets come to mind: high-school and college graduation ceremonies coming up in the next few weeks. Schools and colleges are gun-free zones, and thus are tempting targets for terrorists.

As far as "taking fire from all points of the compass", all they have to do is pick a spot where a large crowd is expected to be, and which has buildings overlooking the area, into which they would be able to infiltrate and set up a barricaded sniper's nest.

Alternate scenario: do you think it would be hard to smuggle in a mortar plus 20 rounds for it, plus an expert crew to man it? Visualize the effect of a crowded sports stadium taking mortar fire. More people would die from being trampled in the panic than from the mortars.