Matt, thanks for posting this. You may have just saved hundreds or thousands of lives, and the consequences (for the 2nd Amendment) that would result. Why? Because if the scenario is out there in the public, it likely won’t be attempted (and this is especially the case if some of the security measures that you proposed are actually implemented), because then it would be too obvious.
It is amazing how vulnerable our open society is to truly catastrophic attacks that would be simple to carry out. Bridge and tunnel attacks with truck bombs, for example, would kill thousands and interrupt transportation for hundreds of thousands (3 such bombs on the western side of NYC would largely paralyze our financial capitol - the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and the George Washington Bridge). Fuel depots and refinery complexes could similarly be easily attacked. Sports stadiums and concert locations aren’t the only vulnerable areas.
Such is the price of having an open society - and I’ll take it because a lot more than mere vulnerability goes with that (and we risk a lot of positive things if we ever attempt to eliminate that vulnerability).
Again, thanks. I’ll be avoiding big crowds.
Yep. The Soviet army suffered massive casualties in an attack on a convoy in an A-stan tunnel. I would not even post much more than that in open forum, it’s too easy and too dreadful if carried out.
Ancestral Hunter,
Avoid crowds and be careful in the woods if you live in NY. There have been several sightings of a wild and dangerous angry Hildabeast creature on the move.
>>>(3 such bombs on the western side of NYC would largely paralyze our financial capitol - the Holland and Lincoln tunnels and the George Washington Bridge). <<< <<<
This nearly happened 25 yrs ago. The plot foiled in 1993 after two years of FBI surveillance and infiltration.
The “NYC landmark bomb plot” was to be a follow-up to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing designed to inflict mass casualties with a death toll in the thousands.
The plot was a creation of Omar Abdel-Rahman, the blind sheik -a radical Muslim cleric in NYC imprisoned for the first WTC bombing.
The 6 targets to be attacked were the United Nations HQ, Lincoln Tunnel, Holland Tunnel, GW Bridge, St. Regis & U.N. Plaza hotels, and the FBI’s NY office at the Javits Fed. Building. There was also some talk of bombing Jewish centers or the Diamond District, assassinating U.S. Senator Al D’Amato and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.