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k-rod":2dxkpzwg said:
sadly, and paradoxically, if some person tried doing that somewhere in the US of A ... he/she sure wouldn't have gotten as far as he did in France (with such a high body count).

With 126 cases of mass murder sprees carried out in the US since 1966, i think he would have. Recent school shootings, carried out on the unsuspecting. Which is likely to be the cause of the higher casualties.

A dustbin cart driver suffered a blackout at the wheel in Glasgow and killed 6 with 15 injured some extremely seriously. That was at 20mph and slowing down, while on a random course and not deliberately driven at speed, into a crowd, in identifying the largest part of the crowd and aiming directly for it. while accelerating and swerving about.

Panic would be such nobody could react that quickly, and shooting at the driver could easily miss, no doubt you'd find a number of deaths directly due to that.
Too much going on, too soon for anyone to react quick enough. No matter how heavily armed the population is, or would like to be.
 
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Arm Police, not public. Crucial difference.
Trained officers, using arms as a last resort.
Unless you're a racist policeman, in the south of the U.S.A.
Glasgow was a tragic set of circumstances, but a totally different situation.
Afaik, the driver of that truck didn't have weapons. Probably just a cheese sandwich.

Mike
 
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