re: #294 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

A couple of months ago I read a novel “Soft Target” by Stephen Hunter, about a bunch of terrorists who take hostages at a mall which is not “Mall of America.” (Hunter had to include a number of disclaimers that his novel was set at a fictitous mall somewhere in Minnesota. Anyway one of the shoppers happens to be a U.S. Marine sniper just back from Afghanistan.

The novel follows the Marine around the mall as he hides from the terrorists, obtains a weapon after killing one of them (with a knife) and the various tactical problems that confront him.

Nobody else at the mall has a weapon (except for the hostiles), which the Marine is very happy for since it would have presented a tactical nightmare.

I base my terror scenarios of “24” and Jack Bauer, and novels like this one.

Because they fit my ideological bent, not because they correspond to reality.

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