Let’s talk about surviving a distributed, multi-faceted terrorist attack. We’re family with one lone wolf, usually a mass shooter, airplane hijackings, bombings, or deliberate car crashes. Now what if someone does some or all of that? The Islamic terrorist in New Orleans wanted to do that. What if he had accomplices? He kills a dozen or more with the car, then as the crowd is stampeding, they run headlong into IEDs and gunfire.
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what absolute crap. One cannot carry a trauma kit, 30 rounds, etc as EDC. Simply impractical. Totally unrealistic. I wish I could, but I can't carry all that and still do my day to day errands. If you really need that much, you need to be elsewhere. Your handgun isn't to fight with, it is to get you out of a bad situation. If a terror attack, hide don't fight. Use your EDC pistol to get one of the attacker's rifles and plates. Or just plain run if that is the only option.
ReplyDelete"Stay away from crowds" has never been more sage advice.
ReplyDeleteYup. Stay way from crows and maintain your situational awareness. If your spidey senses say something is wrong, get out.
DeleteThat "what if" isn't bad enough. What if they do a 100 Beslan school take overs at colleges across the US? That would shock the American psychi bad
ReplyDeleteThat'd cut into all those pro Gaza demos.
DeleteMostly in agreement but
ReplyDeleteI've been practicing shots into the pelvis, my thoughts are that odds of body armor is high so center mass shots may not be effective. The pelvic area is large, easier to hit in a fluid high stress situation than a head shot and usually not protected,. A couple rounds into that area isn't going to kill anyone but it will put them down onto the ground where a finishing shot could be done if really necessary.. My personal carry includes 1 reload just in case
JD
yeah. after the wide spread use of body armor, I started shooting at the pelvis area as well. even talked a few others into it. chances are you not going to have anything on you to punch thru body armor. so, why try for center mass ?
Deletelike anything else, it depends on what is happening at the time.
but like I tell people, if something bad MIGHT happen there. be somewhere else !
as they say. stay away from crowds ! is still the best choice as far as i can see.
and I don't even want to think about a attack like the one that happened at Beslan school a few years ago. we do need to harden our "soft targets" a bit.
but if one does happen. we need to send a very strong message to the world about it. like burning the assholes alive on TV to show the world "this is what we will do to you if you fuck with us " or maybe level the place they came from works too.
I wish someone in the after action would put strips of raw bacon over the terrorists eyes and a strip out of the mouth. Use the terrorists beliefs against them.
DeleteI completely agree with you
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I will be armed every day. It at least gives me a chance to survive.
ReplyDeleteI don't carry to engage in combat with "terrorists". Neither does my wife. long gun I carry in the truck when we go to town isn't there to save the universe either. Those are there to help extricate myself and my charges from the situation.
ReplyDeleteI leave the stopping of those "terrorists" to the heroes like DonShift. I'm sure he and his "brothers in blue" will rush right in there and totally make it better. Just like in Uvalde.
Heros. Every One.
My EDC has changed to a 22mag pocket gun. The idea is to get to a larger pistol in the truck/closet to get to a battle gun that may be in the truck or my gun closet. When I am sitting in my recliner in the den I have a 45 within arms reach. I have to sanitize the house when my grand nieces visit.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a closet commie gun grabber trying to convince people that owning a gun is pointless so they shouldn't.
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