Terrorist assaults on schools? Could happen here, book says (Frightening of America?)

Arizona Daily Star ^ | Jeff Commings

[kerryusama04]

"provoke" the terrorists,

Isn't that like saying "Jumbo Shrimp".

It is a scenario I hope we never see unfold in this country.

Ditto

[softwarecreator]

The scene would be road side bomb attacks on School buses full of little kids ... mass chaos, mass panic and they would plan it for the beginning of the school year ... around 9/11

I have children in school.  It's the biggest nightmare we have involving terrorism.  I can't imagine the reaction I'd have to something like this occuring anywhere in the US, even a thousand miles away from our area.

[goodnesswins]

Well...duh....is all I can say.....where in America is it guaranteed there are NO guns? (Generally speaking)

[sneakers]

Re: your post #7:

I dearly hope you are right.

[buccaneer81]

As long as there are idiots who insist that tightening the borders and clamping down on illegal immigration from everywhere is somehow "racist" nothing will be done.

You mean guys like Dane.

[upchuck]

NO ONE has seen what the USA can do fighting without restraint for the last 60 years.

And isn't that a shame?

[Fee]

IED kills too few kids, attacking a school forcing the principal to order a lock down during the attack will allow the terrorist to go classroom to classroom with explosive for the door locks, grenades for mass casaulties and submachineguns to pick off the survivors from the grenades. Several attack teams of 2 men, two team for each floor and corridors, each team coming in opposite directions can corner, kill and maim hundreds of kids within 30 minutes plus two teams for the roof overlooking the school grounds. Most schools instruct the teachers to keep the kids in the class room, lock the doors and wait for instructions from the PA. Guess what, if I were the attackers, the location of the PA microphone is the first room I take and disable. It would be 10 to 15 minutes before the teachers figure it out. Try a mass escape and the terrorist teams on the roof will spray the grounds with automatic gunfire and inform the teams within to open fire from the windows and cut the kids down as they emerge from the school to escape. Cops take time to arrive and the SWAT teams take hours to mobilize. Don't forget the attackers do not fear the arriving cops because they intend to die anyway. I know this is a nightmare scenario but Bin Laden had instructed his followers to find a way to kill 4.0 million Americans and half of them must be children. I figure 12 attackers can take out a suburban school of 500 to 1000 kids. Elementary schools would make great targets because the kids are too small to fight back or run away.

[softwarecreator]

That is a nightmare scenario.  If this happens it would effectively be the end of Islam in America.  I hope it never comes down to this type of attack happening.

[Ciexyz]

Scary scenario.

[El Gato]

Much as I like some Russians, we aren't them and we practically spoil our children with the attention that they get.

So do the Russians. Russians are appalled that we spank our children, just to cite one example. Probably explains why they seem to need such a strong state, far too many of them are spoiled brats with no self discipline.

[El Gato]

I don't think attacks on schools would be the scenario. The terrorists would stick with what has worked for them in the past ... road side bombs.

Attacks on schools have worked for them in the past. Breslan in Russia. Many attacks in Israel, that is until they got off their PC behinds and armed their teachers. Our teachers would lose their jobs and go to jail, if they exercised their Constitutional right to be armed.

[JimRed]

The leftists, ACLU, CAIR, etc can scream all they want...

...and be deported or killed along with their Muslim buddies! < /wishful thinking >

[gitmo]

True, but it will catch stoopid.

[Inyo-Mono]

If a school is attacked in America all bets are pretty much off.

The lefites will lose all but their most hardened supporters and all hell will break loose. There will be demands from most of the American people to do something serious and forget this whole PC BS. If the muzzies think they are profiled and treated badly now, just wait ... it'll be very ugly.

I'm afraid that what would really happen here would be for our elected officials to curtail our rights by passing more gun laws.

[ASOC]

Dunno about Tucson, I'll check with sis.

In Las Vegas the school security carry 9mm with the same ammo/magazines as the local cops. And carry radios, have violence drills, etc.

But then with the gang problems, terrs are a distant second.

[manic4organic]

Concealed handgun license holders are not allowed armed into schools.

[Tench_Coxe]

"I dont think an attack on an American elementary school would demoralise America, If anything it would convince even the liberals that its time to break this BS up by hitting the Middle east with attacks they can only dream of in their worst nightmares"

I'm not so sure about liberals. What WILL convince them, however, is the reaction from the average American if such an event occurs.
If such an attack occurs, IMHO, the media (and liberals), who have been shilling for just about any anti-American cause since 2000, will 'get religion' to save their own hides.

Why? Because only one eye of that sleeping giant Yamamoto warned about is half-open. Kill innocents (not to demean the victims in WTC) and there will be a surge of rage. The world hasn't seen the American populace galvanized since WWII. If that happens, Pinch and his friends in the Muslim world won't have to worry about what is going to get shoved up their sphincter, because they'll be more worried about the cold resolve that comes from a people tired of so much crap.

Summed up from the movie 'Tombstone': "You called down the thunder, well now you've got it"

[Centurion2000]

So do the Russians. Russians are appalled that we spank our children, just to cite one example. Probably explains why they seem to need such a strong state, far too many of them are spoiled brats with no self discipline.

That's not my experience with Russians. Every Russian woman (wife, friends, aquaintences) I have ever spoken with is a strong beleiver in corporal punishment.

[backhoe]

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[wildwood]

i'm guessing in MOST schools (not necessarily hot spot cities) there is little or no security. our security is to lock the doors once the kids are in. hmpf. we had hall monitors for a while, who were supposed to be some sort of eyes and ears in the hall, but they ended up screaming at the kids who were late to class and drinking coffee in the break room, and ultimately were fired for lack of funds.

people walk around in our school and no one even asks who they are.