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Global War on Terror 8 - Winter is Coming

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Is this all for real? Are you just trolling? I can't tell, so maybe shame on me. But your responses are kind of insane.
 
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This is not good. A bomber is in the loose on the NYC area.

@FoxNews: UPDATE: Elizabeth, NJ mayor says five devices found in bag near train station. One exploded while bomb squad robot tried to disarm it
 
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But I was told this isn't a big deal. It's just to sell newspapers.
 
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Dude stabs 9 in a mall in .... St. Cloud, MN ... and is stopped (dead) by armed man carrying concealed*.

The stabber reportedly asked one victim if they were "Muslim". (One report says it was a kitchen knife.)

The now-dead stabber previously lived in Fargo.

http://www.inforum.com/news/crime/4118034-st-cloud-mall-attack-suspect-previously-lived-fargo


But I'm sure this is just all to sell the St. Cloud and Fargo fishwrappers too.


*Full disclosure - off duty Avon, MN, police officer.
 
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He was shot by an off duty cop. Stop conflating someone with extensive training in firearms to your local wannabe Rambo.
 
The Sicatoka said:
Dude stabs 9 in a mall in .... St. Cloud, MN ... and is stopped (dead) by armed man carrying concealed*.

The stabber reportedly asked one victim if they were "Muslim". (One report says it was a kitchen knife.)

The now-dead stabber previously lived in Fargo.

http://www.inforum.com/news/crime/4118034-st-cloud-mall-attack-suspect-previously-lived-fargo


But I'm sure this is just all to sell the St. Cloud and Fargo fishwrappers too.


*Full disclosure - off duty Avon, MN, police officer.
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Conversely, he didn't have a gun and only injured 9, killing none. I can only imagine the casualties if he had procured a firearm instead.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
He was shot by an off duty cop. Stop conflating someone with extensive training in firearms to your local wannabe Rambo.
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Ah yes, the myth of "extensive training".

By the time an average police recruit completes typical academy firearms training, how much more skilled in shooting is he than a person who has never shot or even held a handgun before? Not much, according to a first-of-its-kind study by the Force Science Institute that is set for publication in an international law enforcement journal . . .

“[T]his study’s results indicate an alarming need for improved firearms training for officers,” writes lead researcher Dr. Bill Lewinski, FSI’s executive director. After finishing academy instruction and practice, new officers “were a mere 13%” more accurate than novices in shooting at distances where a high proportion of officer-involved shootings occur.
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More interesting?

The discussion was prompted by the fact that during the latest round of FBI suspect interviews conducted for the third book in the Officer Assaulted and Murdered trilogy (“Violent Encounters”), it was revealed that those suspects believed that police officers trained between two and three times a week with their firearms. In reality, most police departments only train about two times a year, averaging less than 15 hours annually. In contrast to our frequency of training, those same suspects revealed that they practiced on average 23 times a year (or almost twice a month) with their handguns.

During a poll taken during this class which represented about a half dozen Florida law enforcement agencies, I asked how many train more than twice a year. No hands went up. When asked how many train or qualify with their duty guns only once a year. Everyone raised their hands.
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It may be purely anecdotal by me, but when I'm at my local range I try to get the lane next to any local LEO I recognize. Why? It strokes my ego when I out-shoot a LEO. (Based on that article maybe I'm thinking about this wrong: I should be embarrassed when I don't out-shoot a LEO on the range.)
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Is this all for real? Are you just trolling? I can't tell, so maybe shame on me. But your responses are kind of insane.
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I was responding based on the people who actually live there. New York City was not (and still is not) "gripped by panic". They seem to be taking it all in stride. Unlike other people.

But hey, the important thing is that no one in New York or Minnesota was hurt.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/gary-johnson-hurt-nyc-minn-attacks-article-1.2796970
 
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ticapnews said:
New York City was not (and still is not) "gripped by panic". They seem to be taking it all in stride.
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Think about what that says.

29 of their fellow citizens were attacked via IED and, meh, whatever, ...
the true tragedy is they didn't use low-fat in my double sweet caramel macchiato this morning. :rolleyes:

Sorry, people with IEDs blowing up dumpsters in cities and knifers asking shoppers if they are Muslim before slicing them is not acceptable and not something to be taken in stride.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Think about what that says.

29 of their fellow citizens were attacked via IED and, meh, whatever, ...
the true tragedy is they didn't use low-fat in my double sweet caramel macchiato this morning. :rolleyes:

Sorry, people with IEDs blowing up dumpsters in cities and knifers asking shoppers if they are Muslim before slicing them is not acceptable and not something to be taken in stride.
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I'm happy with the resiliency the country is showing and I'll leave it at that.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Think about what that says.

29 of their fellow citizens were attacked via IED and, meh, whatever, ...
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It says in a city of 9 million, 29 of their fellow citizens probably died during sex last last night.

This was the last time "city gripped by panic" was anything but nonsense.
 
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