Posted by
davecatbone on Saturday, November 29, 2008 7:56:20 AM
Details begin to emerge about the scope of the attacks in Bombay.
Well coordinated, precise, efficient.
At the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the train station that appears
to have been the first location hit, a fusillade of bullets left the
floor of the main hall quickly littered with bodies and pools of blood.
At the Leopold Cafe, a chic restaurant popular with Westerners and
wealthy Indians and famous for sidewalk dining, a cluster of gunmen
mowed down diners.
At the opulent Taj Mahal and Oberoi hotels,
the assailants poured heavy fire into restaurant goers on the ground
floors, then moved upstairs to round up guests as hostages. And at a
range of other locations, from a movie theater to a hospital to a
police station, the attackers opened fire remorselessly on anyone in
their path, frequently throwing grenades as well.
At the famous Taj Hotel:
The attackers stood at the entrances and raked the diners with heavy
fire from assault rifles. The power of the rounds is still visible from
three shots that missed the diners. They struck the thick concrete
columns on either side of an entrance and penetrated more than an inch
deep, leaving red stains.
So the question stands, imagine jihadists performing attacks like this, simultaneously across the country in elementary schools. Horrible, yes, possible, of course. The mayhem, the horror and anguish. The terrorists would be killed eventually. But the effect could lead to something like Billy Bob standing in rage and grief, outside the school where his children were killed, and noticing an Iraqi convenience store owner on the sidewalk watching. Billy Bob walks over and blows his head off with a 45..
Now you've got a situation, and
if you're a Leftist Government that hates the Second Amendment anyways, what do you do?
Obama's chief of staff says
you should never waste a good crisis.