Surviving Diaster, Terrorist Mall Attack

Spike TV

[MaxMax]

terrorist takes over a shopping mall in this scenario,
and the host gives tips on taking down a well-armed foe.

[tdscpa]

And the rest of the world would complain to hussein because the US acted unilaterally.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Imagine the paradigm shift in the gun control debate if that happened.

We might see concealed or open carry mandated by law.

The libtards would be so wee-weed up.

My guess is that you are 180° out of phase with reality! A couple of malls shot up with automatic weapons would bring on the biggest push for total confiscation the country has ever seen. It could also trigger an extralegal push for martial law and a suspension of the constitution. It would be just the excuse that the obamanation would need to move his agenda forward.

Everybody is entitled to an opinion but I have serious doubts that any such scenario would end well for the gun owning public.

Regards,
GtG

[AZ .44 MAG]

My guess is that you are 180° out of phase with reality! A couple of malls shot up with automatic weapons would bring on the biggest push for total confiscation the country has ever seen. It could also trigger an extralegal push for martial law and a suspension of the constitution. It would be just the excuse that the obamanation would need to move his agenda forward.

Everybody is entitled to an opinion but I have serious doubts that any such scenario would end well for the gun owning public.

Regards,
GtG

You may be right. I also think it could turn the other way if it was clearly shown that it was armed private citizen's actions that prevented massacres across the country.

If we had a free press I think that would probably happen.

If there was the push you're thinking of it would come from the Left and the media. Maybe enough citizens would pay enough attention that they would see past the media filters and realize how stupid it is to disarm the law-abiding.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I counted up the "if"s in you response and all I can say is "Hope springs eternal". God bless and good luck with that, I hope we never have to find out which way the pickle squirts (as my mother used to say).

Still Doubtful,
GtG

[AZ .44 MAG]

Yeah I tend toward optimism with most things. I think that 60 years ago I could have made my statements without any “ifs”. That I had to include them is a sad reflection of our society’s decline. That mindset of 60 years is not completely gone in America IMO. I see things as they are but have hope that as a whole America can recover her common sense. Sadly it might take an attack of the scale mentioned on this thread to jar the population out of its stupor.

I am not optomistic when it comes to government. Its tendency is always to exert increasing power and this scenario might give them an excuse to grab more. Whether that would work or not I think depends a great deal the citizen’s reaction to that power grab.

And I agree with your hope that we never have to know for sure.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

I am not optomistic when it comes to government. Its tendency is always to exert increasing power and this scenario might give them an excuse to grab more.

I tend to think of government (at all levels) as a living organism. It consumes (taxes, man-hours, and energy), it excretes (laws, "administrative regulations", red tape and busywork), it grows (relentlessly larger), and it has a sense of self preservation (every new administration that vows to cut the size of government and bring it under control winds up appointing a blue ribbon committee of 24 distinguished economists and retired judges to study the problem. They in turn hire five administrative assistants each, a brigade of office assistants, researchers by the score, file clerks, &C, &C. They then decide they need a new building to house this fledgling army of the righteous who's only purpose is to trim the size of government. 75 million on the new building and office accouterments and several years later they publish their preliminary report which finds that they could find absolutely no waste or fraud in any government operation.)

Regards,
GtG