“When seconds count, help is only minutes away....”
While this is meant to deride police response, it is also true.
Police forces need to admit it openly. I stead they pretend that they need more funding, more training, etc. They use every excuse that any good bureaucracy uses.
I do not expect the police to sacrifice their lives. But I do expect them to be honest about it.
So a well-equipped gunman in a building overlooking a large crowd cannot be stopped in less than one hour in any major city.
That’s the reality and a limitation of law enforcement. People simply need to understand and our laws that tolerate the groups that might advocate this sort of thing need to be enforced on this basis.
If antifa, for instance was immediately taken down as the terrorist group it clearly is, I believe that this gunman, regardless of his direct or indirect involvement with this or any other terroristic group may have been dissuaded.
There might be a partial high tech (ok, medium high tech) answer.
What have I seen very often at events (festivals fairs, etc.) in the town nearest us?
Drones.
Ok, we're not talking about something you buy for $79.99 on Amazon, but I am also not talking about a Predator. Lot's of capability is out there & there are a lot of possibilities and angles that might be interesting topics for a thread of their own. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be on FR much the rest of today, beyond a couple quick checks for news... Will try to stop back by this thread this evening -- might be very late.