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Originally Posted by jyl
Certainly one of the most spectacular terrorist attacks ever, and one of the most unusual - I can't think of any prior attack that involved so many attackers, and was of this "armed assault" style rather than the usual "plant a bomb" style. Munich '72 comes to mind, but this attack was much larger.
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Actually "gunmen" terrorist attacks have been an extremely common technique used internationally. The U.S. media has generally failed to report such attacks.
The scale of this recent attack in India is just too large for them to ignore so we are getting reporting on this one.
I think the media decides to
not report on "gunman" terrorist attacks -- and only reports on "bomb" terrorism -- because they have such an "anti-gun" bias. The reason for the media's normal silence about "gunmen terrorists" is connected to the same reason the media fails to report on any of the literally thousands of instances where U.S. citizens successfully use a firearm to
defend themselves against domestic crime attacks -- the media wants to create an idea in people's minds that they are "helpless" against criminals, including that group of criminals called terrorists.
Look at Israel, in the 1970s and 80s, suicide gunmen terrorists were being shot dead so quickly by armed civilians, the terrorists had to change their techniques to suicide bombing in an attempt to increase the "effectiveness" of their terror campaign.
Odds are, if there is an organized terrorist attack in the U.S., it will involve gunmen and not "bombers." I've expected such an attack in the U.S. for years. Long before 9/11, I've carried "extra firepower" in the odd chance I happened to be someplace nearby when such a gunmen terrorist attack takes place. Based upon what has been seen internationally -- including this most recent attack in India -- terrorists will choose a "soft" target. It could happen anywhere in the U.S., but will likely involve targeting someplace where the terrorists will know that people will be completely unarmed. (They understand that it's easier to kill people if their intended victims aren't shooting back at them.)