Terrorists with Guns

[Edify_Always_In_All_Ways]

This has been on my mind for a long time, and the fairly recent terrorist activity in Mumbai pushed me even closer to posting this:

What would prevent a small terrorist cell in the United States from planning an assault-rifle attack on a major city? All they'd need is some way to conceal a gun for a short length of time and some heavy weaponry. If a car enters New York City/Chicago/LA/wherever and drops off an Al-Qaeda member in four public areas, each with an AK-47 or an equivalent (whatever the black market's best is these days), it seems as if there's no real way to stop a lot of people from dying with our current system (just imagine someone opening fire suddenly in Times Square or in a shopping line). If the assailants had some kind of body armor, even light police resistance could be overwhelmed, especially if the terrorists went after cops first.

Is there anything other than a lack of organized terrorism in the US that really prevents this from happening?

 

[Hatuey]

This has been on my mind for a long time, and the fairly recent terrorist activity in Mumbai pushed me even closer to posting this:

What would prevent a small terrorist cell in the United States from planning an assault-rifle attack on a major city? All they'd need is some way to conceal a gun for a short length of time and some heavy weaponry. If a car enters New York City/Chicago/LA/wherever and drops off an Al-Qaeda member in four public areas, each with an AK-47 or an equivalent (whatever the black market's best is these days), it seems as if there's no real way to stop a lot of people from dying with our current system (just imagine someone opening fire suddenly in Times Square or in a shopping line). If the assailants had some kind of body armor, even light police resistance could be overwhelmed, especially if the terrorists went after cops first.

Is there anything other than a lack of organized terrorism in the US that really prevents this from happening?

We should make tanks available for sale in every Puerto Rican store in Harlem.

 

[Jerry]

This has been on my mind for a long time, and the fairly recent terrorist activity in Mumbai pushed me even closer to posting this:

What would prevent a small terrorist cell in the United States from planning an assault-rifle attack on a major city? All they'd need is some way to conceal a gun for a short length of time and some heavy weaponry. If a car enters New York City/Chicago/LA/wherever and drops off an Al-Qaeda member in four public areas, each with an AK-47 or an equivalent (whatever the black market's best is these days), it seems as if there's no real way to stop a lot of people from dying with our current system (just imagine someone opening fire suddenly in Times Square or in a shopping line). If the assailants had some kind of body armor, even light police resistance could be overwhelmed, especially if the terrorists went after cops first.

Is there anything other than a lack of organized terrorism in the US that really prevents this from happening?

An armed population.

 

[Harry Guerrilla]

We should make tanks available for sale in every Puerto Rican store in Harlem.

:yes: except I'd expand it to the rest of the U.S. :2wave:

 

[Tashah]

This has been on my mind for a long time, and the fairly recent terrorist activity in Mumbai pushed me even closer to posting this:

What would prevent a small terrorist cell in the United States from planning an assault-rifle attack on a major city? All they'd need is some way to conceal a gun for a short length of time and some heavy weaponry. If a car enters New York City/Chicago/LA/wherever and drops off an Al-Qaeda member in four public areas, each with an AK-47 or an equivalent (whatever the black market's best is these days), it seems as if there's no real way to stop a lot of people from dying with our current system (just imagine someone opening fire suddenly in Times Square or in a shopping line). If the assailants had some kind of body armor, even light police resistance could be overwhelmed, especially if the terrorists went after cops first.

Is there anything other than a lack of organized terrorism in the US that really prevents this from happening?

This is known as attacking soft targets. Nothing other than awareness and vigilence can prevent this from happening. It is critical to kill the perp asap.

 

[Goshin]

If the assailants had some kind of body armor, even light police resistance could be overwhelmed, especially if the terrorists went after cops first.

Is there anything other than a lack of organized terrorism in the US that really prevents this from happening?

Headshots by a well-practiced armed citizenry.

Oh yeah, that's not allowed in NYC. Oh well...

G.

 

[Jerry]

Headshots by a well-practiced armed citizenry.

Oh yeah, that's not allowed in NYC. Oh well...

G.

If NYC is attacked in that way, I'll nominate the whole ****ing city for a Darwin Award.

 

[Goshin]

If NYC is attacked in that way, I'll nominate the whole ****ing city for a Darwin Award.

The anti-gun NYC government, anyway.

 

[Maxientius]

This has been on my mind for a long time, and the fairly recent terrorist activity in Mumbai pushed me even closer to posting this:

What would prevent a small terrorist cell in the United States from planning an assault-rifle attack on a major city? All they'd need is some way to conceal a gun for a short length of time and some heavy weaponry. If a car enters New York City/Chicago/LA/wherever and drops off an Al-Qaeda member in four public areas, each with an AK-47 or an equivalent (whatever the black market's best is these days), it seems as if there's no real way to stop a lot of people from dying with our current system (just imagine someone opening fire suddenly in Times Square or in a shopping line). If the assailants had some kind of body armor, even light police resistance could be overwhelmed, especially if the terrorists went after cops first.

Is there anything other than a lack of organized terrorism in the US that really prevents this from happening?

Ignore the incompetent fools. The US, like every other country, has no standing measure to prevent htis but does have a very fast response to such actions. It is impossible to stop this as there are simply too many people in the world to monitor what they are all doing all the time.
Also, in response to one major terrorist attack (9/11) the United States went gun happy the world over. Terrorist now fear the retribution of attacking the US on its own soil.

 

[Polynikes]

I have been thinking the same thing, or if they deployed 6 or 7 well trained snipers across the county at the same time. Look at the chaos and fear the D.C sniper brought upon those communities. And that was 1 man and his boy. A trained spotter and sniper could be devastating.


Scarier still is 3 squads of 6-7 personal deploying into a crowded mall with automatic weapons, body armor, and explosives on black Friday after Thanksgiving. That type of attack would rock the economy to the core, consumer confidence would plummet.

Hope I didn't give any aspiring jihadist any ideas..Or do they just watch 24 for that?

Oh, and NYC would be one of the last cities I would do this if I were a terrorist. Read about their Hercules anti-terrorism squad. They're some badasses.

 

[repeter]

The main thing holding them back is the lack of organization and our intelligence community ( NSA, DIA, CIA, FBI) are supposed to stop this as well. Whether they actually do their jobs....oh and the terrorists must be pretty stupid as well to not think of this.

 

[Real Talk]

dont know that itd down that many people,,,,,,,,,