The main thing that struck me about the Watertown event was how compliant the people were with the enforced lockdown and subsequent house-2-house searches. Was that optional or mandatory? Did some LE agency declare martial law or something? Was that even legal? The bigger question here is, what if this new terror threat matrix conditions people to submit, so they “can be saved/rescued” from the “Bad Guy?”
And I keep seeing eyewitnesses saying how scared they were; how they were “cowering in their houses for days”, etc. (I can’t imagine the fear they must have felt if they had no gun for self-defense. Talk about a helpless feeling.)
Somehow, i think if this event had happened in my neck of the woods, LE would have been competing with Bubba in their search. There is NO WAY people would be staying inside like that, nor could we be conditioned to do so. Anyone remember that photo after Hurricane Rita of the Houston neighborhood, where everyone on the street posed with a big sign and their gun-of-choice? Yeah, that’s how it would go down in the South. lol.
Oh, and if Bassin’ Bubba got his boat shot up... yeah, he would be VERY PO’d. Unless he’d done it himself, of course, in which case he’d be granted lifetime bragging rights. Lol.
“Was that optional or mandatory?”
Optional - a “shelter in place request”
If you got people off the streets it would be easier to see where the perp was.
In a rural area, there wouldn't be many people out on the streets so it wouldn't be such a problem, and lock-down wouldn't be deemed necessary.
I suspect urban/suburban areas wouldn't be that different in different parts of the country if there was a real crisis outside.