Sure, but a one year old isn't going to give you that much cover. I mean, are they running around with babies strapped on their chests?
I think in human shield use, they expect that no one is going to shoot at someone next to a child at all whether the child is on them, in them, next to them, etc.
These islamofacists use our values to try and destroy us. They use mosques as places to do their work and plan their work, knowing that we probably won't be storming a mosque anytime soon. If they thought a US Marine might not shoot them if they have a child in their grasp, I believe they would do it. Anything is possible with these people who have no respect for any human life, adult or child.
" I mean, are they running around with babies strapped on their chests?"
I wouldnt put it past them. They're animals with little regard for human life.
They hide behind women who have one year olds strapped to their chests. Possibly under a burqa.
Early on in the war, they used to run vehicles up to checkpoints with women and children passengers in it that would refuse to stop and acted like it was a car bomb, just so it would be fired on and they could use the deaths of those women and children as propaganda.
The odds that a group, not just one soldier with mental problems but a GROUP, would open fire on women and children for no reason is one in a billion.