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Frankly, I've been amazed it hasn't already happened. My former boss spent eight years as a Ranger. We talked about this constantly and wondered why the tactics already seen overseas (mass shootings and suicide bombers) haven't occured in CONUS already.

We thought we were seeing the beginning of such action with Muhammad and Malvo shooting up DC but then it turned out all we had was a couple of mentally deranged, evil amatures making a grand tour of the US. Fact is however, had they not started leaving notes and bragging, they probably would have evaded capture much longer. Their tactics, would not be hard for a small cell of a a couple dozen men to replicate. Mass shootings certainly don't seem all that hard to plan given all the "soft" targets that exist in modern society.

Weapons are readily available and the porosity of US borders seems to support setting up such an operation. It would take less than a minute for a four-man team to drive up to a school as classes started or ended, spray several hundred rounds into the crowds and depart the area before police have a chance to respond. I have to wonder if the enemy is that inept or unable to organize such things in the US because the alphabet agencies(CIA, FBI, NSA, DSS, etc.) really are doing that good of a job of preventing it.

On the otherhand, that truly seems overly optomistic and it may be Al Qaida and others panted themselves into a corner and really want to do something "bigger and better" than 9/11. This too seems overly optomistic to me as the insurgents in Iraq and other places around the world seem content to die so long as they take at least one "Infidel" with them.

We also shouldn't ignore our home grown threats. There are plenty of them. If it isn't a radical, Nation of Islam type, it's an allegedly devout "Christian" declaring war on all that is not white. And lets not forget the members of the Democratic Underground who wanted to go to war after GW Bush won re-election in 2004. Fact is, we've got plenty of our own idiots in this country willing to shoot up a shool or mall and yet, it hasn't happened on the scale I would have expected by now. I'm sure there are wiser and more experienced men than I who can offer a theory but I remain thankful I haven't seen the carnage I've expected for some time.