Mumbai-Style Attacks

Coming to a city near you?

Really quite likely if you live in a non gun friendly city, like LA, Chicago, NYC. But even in gun friendly areas where citizens carry guns they could take a toll. They just pick those "Gun Free" zones. Like Ft Hood.

Ohio has plenty of those, being not that far from Cincinnati, I've thought how much damage 10 guys could do if they hit one of the posted Shopping Malls, or the Musuem Center, UC Hospital, and the UC Campus all at the same time. If one looks at the carnage of Ft Hood, just imagine what 10 guys could do before the first responders arrived.

As Dave Grossman says one man with a rifle can pin down a hundred men for 5 minutes, so what could 3 or 4 do?, and to have 3 active shooter sites in the same city at the same time, how would LE respond? The City has a SWAT Team, as does the county but the 3rd would have to handled by regular beat cops. While much better trained that their counterparts in India, will they have the tools and training to prevail?

Grossman suggests the 4-D's
Deter

"Deterrence is the goal."
As an example of a failure to use Deterrence, Grossman citing the example of the school massacre at Red Lake, MN[7], where a young school murderer shot his grandparents with the police-issued weapons he had stolen from his grandfather (a police officer), went to his high school and shot one of two unarmed guards who was manning the front door. "If the guard had been armed, odds are 10 to 1 he'd never have tried," Grossman said.

Those guards were given a responsibility for human lives without the tools to do the job! Never call an unarmed man 'security'. Call them 'run-like-hell-when-the-shooting-starts'.

Armed citizens would also be a deterent

Detect

Every time he bounces off a hard target, it's a chance to Detect.

Delay

The goal is as many hard targets as possible. Once he is in the school, the only question is how many kids die. (Malls Museums, Hospitals, Schools are pretty much soft targets)

Destroy

"We are at war. Our armed citizens and cops are the front line."

Secondly, Grossman reminded officers that "Armed Citizens are the militia.

Integrate concealed-handgun license-holders (CHLs) into your plan. We are at war. The idea that cops can do it all themselves is wrong. Use what is available to you. Integrate them into your plan from the beginning. One or two people in the first few minutes are worth 1000 people hours later."

Saying it can't happen here is Denial, "Denial kills you physical, mentally, and financially. It has no survival value."