Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy

AP ^ | 03/11/10 | LOLITA C. BALDOR

[Travis McGee]

Look for an islamic jihad mass shooter in the USA.

Look for his gun to be traced to the so-called “gun show loophole,” and a crackdown on buying adn selling guns that leads to virtual registration.

[TADSLOS]

Surprised that hasn’t happened already.

[Travis McGee]

Me too.

[mbynack]

Success of lone gunmen may shift al-Qaida strategy

Whatever we do, we can't overreact by allowing citizens to carry weapons or allowing military members to be armed while on base. If people are allowed to defend themselves, who knows what problems it would cause. Trust the government to protect us. They know what's best. They'll take care of us.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Surprised that hasn’t happened already.

Malvo was close. So was Hasan.

[TADSLOS]

True.

[panthermom]

Gee, I don’t have a degree from Harvard or Yale, I have never worked a day in Washington, I don’t belong to any Think Tanks...and yet I was able to figure this one out after Ft. Hood.

I still think we will see an episode like what happened in the hotel in India or something in a Mall. Probably not in a state with CC though.

[absolootezer0]

Look for his gun to be traced to the so-called “gun show loophole,”

i thought the whole issue of the "gun show loophole" was that it made guns more or less "untraceable"?

[Puppage]

Look for an islamic jihad mass shooter in the USA.

A citizens "Rules of Engagement" are much different than the military's.

[cripplecreek]

The Soviets saw our gun owning society as a real problem for a potential invader.

[cake_crumb]

She makes a pretty good case, and I'm shocked to read intellectual coherence coming from the AP, but there's one crucial thing she doesn't note: in both cases, there were red flags aplenty. They were ignored due to the malignant political correctness in the West combined with PC's symbiote, chronic CYA.

Abdulmutallab's own father sent a warning that his son was like to commit a terrosist attack and it was ignore lest he suffer from profiling. Since it was his own father that turned him in, they myst have been protecting the poor boy from parental profiling.

The number of blatant warning signs noticed from Hasan over a period of YEARS, ignored due to the military policy of PC has been toroughly documented.

BOTH of these cases could have been prevented. The information was there. It was just deemed more expedient to ignore it. Sure, al Qaeda types will try more small, high profile attacks, but if we just concentrate on what we KNOW, rather than creating MORE miltibillion dollar levels of Government wasteland, we stand a much better chance of catching the bad guys.

[Hardastarboard]

I keep looking for something like this to happen at a major Christian holiday, in an enclosed space, so the body count is really racked up. Their best scenario would be in a state that limits or prohibits concealed carry, which by definition makes the shooter safer, as well as being a less gun friendly environment. The ball for gun control would start rolling more easily in a state like that.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"The ball for gun control would start rolling more easily in a state like that."

Maybe from the governments viewpoint. However, if a terrorist went on a shooting spree here in the U.S. I think you would see the people start conceal carrying more and more of an outcry in states that don't have CC to get it. Possibly a push to make open carry more socially acceptable also.

[struggle]

Keep some bacon in your pocket in case you’re the one who guns him down. Make sure the newspapers take a picture of him with a big slab of unclean meat in his mouth.

[bgill]

Keep some bacon in your pocket in case you’re the one who guns him down. Make sure the newspapers take a picture of him with a big slab of unclean meat in his mouth.

Until the PC police deem it not nice and demand everyone give up pork.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump.

[null and void]

I carry a packet of real bacon bits whenever I fly.

[crazydad]

What frightens me is another Breslin right here in America... It would be so easy for a small group of terrorist to pull it off.. Schools are gun free zones.. It really scares me..

[verity]

A Day Care Center would be more vulnerable.