You suggest a quasi-vigillante approach as a response to a truly heinous act of mass child murder because of the anticipated feckless government response. While emotionally appealing, I humbly suggest that all that would result in is government repression - martial law, curfews, sweep arrests and even gun confiscation. The government is much more invested in maintaining order than in promoting (or even simply ignoring) rough justice.
Perhaps. Your last sentence is a definite!
I have pretty much written off the foreign interlopers as unwilling to reform themselves and instead fixate on Americans in power who turn a blind eye. Those whose methods involve slaughter of innocents and suicide may only be killed before they kill us, as a rabid animal. But the gutless wonders who enable them, homegrown Americans all, wish to live and do so free of pain.
I wouldn’t say he was suggesting a quasi-vigilante response as much as predicting it. I have no doubt that there will be muslim free areas of our country if they pull off something like this.
One of the problems I see with the government using the military would be the military’s reluctance to fire on its own citizenry. Our soldiers are not the programmed butchers that other countries have and I don’t know it there are enough of them to do more that hit some really strategic hot spots, like bi cities. It’s a big country we have and there’ll be many places where they’d be spread too thing to be effective.
The attempts at government repression that you suggest are likely outcomes of vigilante justice, but may prove more difficult to enforce that is practical. Again, maybe in the cities, but out in the country? I dunno.
While I agree with your point about the interests of government, our government does not have the resources to quell a "real," albeit tightly targeted, rebellion from its most productive citizens.
Mobs may be stupid, but *Americans* are not.