[Joeaksa]

Originally Posted by jyl

Curious - suppose 10 to 30 terrorists with automatic rifles and grenades had machine-gunned and taken over some top hotels and other targets in a large American city - say New York or LA - and were believed to be ransacking the buildings and killing more people as they went.

How long would it take for a heavily armed police or SWAT or military response? Not the first squad car - I mean an organized counter-attack by lots of guys w/ AR-15s, stun grenades, and body armour.

I'm thinking 4 to 6 hours? Too optimistic?

A good team could do it in this time frame, but you are not talking about the "A" team here.

India is ok but they are still the "3 stooges" at most things and their special warfare teams are terrible. Pakistan is even worse. Anyone who has spent time there knows what I mean and am not surprised that it took days to end this where-as a good SWAT team in most US cities would have put this down in several hours.

Also, "right to carry" is not done in this part of the world. Wonder what would have happened had this been tried in Texas or Arizona? They would have still killed people but with the public carrying a sidearm in most areas am sure that the lost of life would have been 10% of what happened here.

This is a prime example of what is going to be our future in places where the public is disarmed and they have to wait for the police to protect them. A normal guy with a .45 auto on his hip could have brought several of these jerks down easily. They were betting on their victims being un-armed, and they were right.