Posted on 01/24/2010 12:14:47 PM PST by CapnJack
The shopping malls of America will be among the next major terrorist targets.
Malls make such obvious high-value targets that it's difficult to grasp why they haven't been hit up until now. Shopping malls are America's marketplaces, constantly packed with people, with uncontrolled entry, and openly vulnerable to any given form of attack. We need only consider the darkest days of the Iraqi terror campaign of 2006-2007 to grasp how the jihadis view marketplaces. Scarcely a week went by without another Iraqi marketplace bombing, with casualties largely consisting of women and children, mounting from the dozens to the hundreds. We need only add the fact that the mall in many ways symbolizes the United States to people across the world, acting as kind of American Horn of Plenty, to see the inevitability of the threat. Such attacks will come, and they will be ugly.
How safe do you really feel going to the mall, grocery store, etc...
When you do go to these places, do you check out your surroundings, the people, the security aka. entrences?
Are you prepared if something does happen? Are you a CCP holder and carry your firearm with you to these places (me ... yes always ... on my hip now even sitting at home)?
Check out the comments at the link to this story ... very good comments.
Thanks, my wife just left for the mall 45 min ago........
Feel safe. Around here,the malls are empty. Not target rich.
Someone apparently doesn't keep up with the news.
I think we need a SSA . We can empty our pockets BEFORE we get in the mall ..
Things like this being put out are a two edged sword. On one hand people need to know the potential danger and on the other we are giving bad people ideas.
I have worried that something like that would happen during the Christmas shopping season for the last few years. I shudder to think what the impact would be if there were widespread simultaneous attacks.
Obama is doing everything he can to ensure that America’s shopping malls are no longer constantly packed with people.
It must be the jihadi lack of imagination that they are so ridiculously obsessed with airliners.
Hell, a suicide bomber would kill just as many airline passengers if he just got in line with passengers waiting to get through security screening.
They really are dumb when you think about it. The Beltway snipers killed ten and injured three, yet they held the entire Greater DC Metro area in a state of terror for three weeks.
How much chaos and havoc would be caused by a slew of bombs going off underground in the NYC or DC or Philly subway systems? Jerusalem-style bus bombings? How could anyone prevent it?
Aside from the 2007 Westwood Mall massacre in Omaha (which wasn't Islamic terrorism) I'm hard-pressed to think of another mall shooting rampage. Have I missed something?
“Thanks, my wife just left for the mall 45 min ago........”
Sorry, I can’t time these post too good sometimes.
Is she packing her Lady Smith?
Am I worried about Jihadis? No. Not really. My situational awareness is more concerned with keeping the thugs and other criminals in the corners of my eyes.
Much greater chance of getting jacked in the parking lot than falling victim to terrorism.
Just had to straighten that out. Sorry.
Oh, they really have little imagination. I have been waiting and waiting for them to really start branching out, and they keep concentrating on airplanes. I have noticed more Muslims around our parts in the last year or two, so I am extra vigilant when I see them in the grocery store (almost NEVER go to the mall- about once every three years or so, if that.)
lady smith dont work when your wired with explosives imbedded with ball bearings.....
This article is just a sensation piece. No we don't need metal detectors and ID cards to enter malls.
This article is just a sensation piece. No we don't need metal detectors and ID cards to enter malls.
Trolley Square, Salt Lake City, February 12, 2007.
Sulejman Talovic, Bosnian Muslim green card recipient, murders 5 American civilians in Trolley Square shopping mall and seriously wounds at least 4 others. Talovic was killed by an armed off-duty police officer.
A year or two ago in Tacoma WA.
Good article, but the biggest terrorists are the democrats who have destroyed vast numbers of malls.
The economy has been intentionally ruined by Obama/Reid/Pelosi with many US shopping centers now “ghost malls” of empty stores.
The democrat party is far, far more destructive than al Queda could ever hope to be.
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