“- just how DOES one prepare for something like that?”
The citizen militia. We need to take responsibility for our own defense. We need to start training ourselves and arming ourselves. We need to reach a critical mass of 10% of all citizens carrying concealed. So should terrorists attack a group of 100 people, about 10 of them will be armed and trained to react and kill them.
Unfortuanately, we’ve been betrayed by the nincompoops and traitors in government. The option of arming trained citizens is never considered by those in government. An armed citizenry can and should be the first line of defense in the war against terrorists.
And since our criminal federal government won’t consider this, it’s up to each of us to carry out this duty ourselves in the conservative states we live in. This, I believe, is the solution. If nothing else, we can assure that such a defense exists in states that encourage self-defense. As for the liberal big city hellholes like New York and Chicago that outright ban self-defense, let Darwin sort them out. They’re not our concern.
We have to take responsibility for ourselves, no doubt, but let's not kid ourselves into believing that we'll get some mass organized group ready to face down the terrorists.