terrorists would probably just keep shooting until they were shot themselves, rather than making an effort to escape
apparently one person's been arrested
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 20 Jul 2012, 9:58,
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Not necessarily, there was that pair of snipers a while back.
Took a while to catch them
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:08,
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Not necessarily.
The IRA, Eta, and so on never went in for that kind of tactic.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:09,
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I suppose
I was thinking more Columbine/Mumbai
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h3donist tryin' to play me out as if my name is Sega.., Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:12,
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Oh, for sure.
But you're mistaking a certain kind of terrorist with terrorists in specie; historically, most terrorists have been fairly rational actors.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:18,
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Didn't they kill themselves in Columbine?
Mumbai they kept going as long as they could moving form building to building IIRC.
Terrorism is a tool not a personality trait anyway.
Create the desired change through installing fear in the target population.
The French were rather good at this in WW2.
Bush and blair tried it with "Shock and Awe" but it doesn't work so well where the scared populous cannot affect the desired change. Terrorism works better against democracies.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:26,
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I am pretty
sure, given what has come out so far that the shooters will be ex military back from Iraq/Afghan tours diagnosed with PTSD.
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 10:44,
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The French were good at it in the 1790s, too.
The government adopted terror as official policy.
"Terror without virtue is monstrous; virtue without terror is useless."
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Fri 20 Jul 2012, 11:18,
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