re: #126 lostlakehiker

Don’t forget that the ISI-cozy group Lashkar e Taibi was involved in the Mumbai attack and that one was all too competent. Once in a while, even enemies that make the WWII Italians look like professionals will score. Of course, with NYC being a concealed carry state where 3% of the population goes armed, they wouldn’t have a chance doing anything of the sort in TSq.

/NYC isn’t??

Throughout the 80’s and early 90’s, NYC used to have more than 2000 murders a year (with maybe 30% solve rate). Bratton (starting under Dinkens, continuing under Giuliani) started doing serious gun control in 91… the murder rate has gone down every year since. Nowadays it’s around 500 a year, with a better than 70% solve rate.

And if anybody did try a mumbai… are you aware we’ve got more than 30,000 cops? That’s an army. Plus a bunch of FBI, and there’s more licensed weapons in civilian hands than you might think — we’re just fussy about making people pass a safety test and a marksmanship test before handing out the licenses. Hotel security, office building security, banks, couriers, bodyguards, etc.

We like it this way. We’d rather not have every random yahoo packing.