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Domestic suicide bombers...
2002-04-09
Charles at LGF takes a bite out of the subject of US-based suicide bombers, linking to this Joel Mowbray article in NRO. Charles notes that Mowbray seems to feel that suicide bombers would be necessarily imported, and points out that domestic thugs (and thugettes) would do as well. One of his readers points to a pair of American Muslims from northern Virginia who were denied admittance to Israel based on indications they were suicide volunteers. One of the comments bring up the Instapundit dicussion of the 14-year-old airhead at the San Diego Islamic Center who said she'd be willing to go "boom." Fatah recently threatened that we were gonna get it if one hair of Yasser's head was harmed. So all the signs are there. It'll come...
And what happens when it does come? Well, it won't be a pretty sight. Charles and his commenters address the international aspects pretty well. What about domestic? Let your imagination roam. The scenario's probably worst case, but...
  • Expect to see a lot more concealed carry states - maybe all of them except for one or two liberal bastions like Maryland and Massachussets. If the laws aren't passed, people will act as though they were anyway. It's strictly a matter of self-defense and the defense of home and hearth.
  • Reasonable, intelligent citizens will pack heat and will pop anyone with a fuse, two lines, no waiting.
  • Unreasonable, non-intelligent citizens will pack heat and pop not only Islamists with fuses, but Islamists without fuses. And Arabs, Pakistanis, Sikhs, Indians, Sri Lankans, Chinese, Eskimos, cows, lamp posts, dogs, cats and the occasional family member. For awhile it'll look like a Fearless Fosdick strip.
  • The government will be forced to clean out fifth column ratsnests like CAIR.
  • The deportations will be by the planeload, preferably foreign carriers with no checks for explosives at boarding time.

Why will what happens here be more effective than what they do in Israel? Because the Bad Guys are more or less confined to a very few readily identifiable ethnic groups, groups that are vastly outnumbered by the rest of us. And the rest of us are armed and sometimes dangerous, and when you come right down to it, we're not that opposed to a little profiling in a good cause.
Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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