No one in the world of counter-terrorism was surprised at what happened in Paris.\u00a0 Terrorists have been performing such atrocities for a very long time.<\/p>\n
And counter-terrorism experts have been predicting that it will happen here, too.\u00a0 ISIS has threatened as much.\u00a0 Remember Fort Hood, for example.<\/p>\n
Around the country, police are being advised to be especially cautious even off duty, and some departments are telling their armed personnel to carry their service pistols and a couple of spare magazines on their own time, not just a little .380 in the pocket and no more ammo than what\u2019s in the gun.\u00a0 My old friend Dave Workman gives an example here<\/a>.<\/p>\n And as Dave points out, armed citizens are facing this reality too.<\/p>\n In recent weeks, we saw an armed citizen on the street shoot and kill a rampaging jihadi who had just stabbed a rabbi to death.\u00a0 That righteous gunfire ended the rampage without further loss of innocent life.<\/p>\n Inevitably you will hear, \u201cAw, that\u2019s not going to happen here.\u201d<\/p>\n I\u2019m sure that\u2019s what each of the Parisian victims would have said in the moments before the gunfire and explosives erupted there last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No one in the world of counter-terrorism was surprised at what happened in Paris.\u00a0 Terrorists have been performing such atrocities for a very long time. And counter-terrorism experts have been predicting that it will happen here, too.\u00a0 ISIS has threatened as much.\u00a0 Remember Fort Hood, for example. Around the country, police are being advised to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}