Is an attack on DC already underway?

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Emblazoned across CNN.com’s main page right now is an obnoxiously large photo of terrorist shitheads with guns, titled “ISIS THREATENS D.C.” I didn’t look for the article, because what else it is going to say that you can’t figure out from the splash screen?

Now, cross-reference this with a story that broke this morning. A bunch of weapons were stolen from an army reserve armory in Massachusetts. Officials are being tight-lipped about what exactly was stolen, and how many.

I’m sure I’m not the only person wondering if perhaps the robbery was Step 1, and now they’re driving to DC for Step 2?

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The radio service of the Associated Press pointed out that if ISIS indeed intended to attack DC, they’d have gone silent rather than issue a warning.

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Time square, New Years Eve. That’s the kind of thing they will do.

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Hmmm… Along those lines, maybe an attack on a Thanksgiving Day parade? Boston, New York, and DC are all relatively “local” to the site of the theft.

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I’m sure that ISIS or whoever can find plenty of weapons in the US without needing to steal them from an army reserve depot. My guess is that these were stolen so they could be sold on the black market.

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Depends what they stole. Will be interesting to see when that info is released.

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According to the Fox affiliate in Boston, “10 Sig Sauer 9mm handguns and six M-4 5.56mm assault rifles were taken.” Isn’t that all available at your local gun show?

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The handguns are easy to find, but the M-4s are actual select fire assault rifles - I don’t know if they’re full auto or 3 round burst, but either way, extremely difficult to buy legally.

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The M-4’s will be select or maybe burst fire (three rounds at a time). ‘Machine guns’.

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Yeah, if you want a gun to kill people in DC, just do what everyone else here does and go to Virginia.

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We do know that the government doesn’t take the security of government installations in Washington DC seriously. Remember the Washington Navy Yard shooting just two years ago where one deranged individual killed a dozen people?

A trained group of ISIS terrorists there could probably have killed 100.

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And the people who do own that kind of gun legally (ie, militia types) would never in a million years sell a gun to a swarthy Middle Eastern-looking guy.

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That’s been my nightmare for years, even though I have no intention of ever going there personally.

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I would have thought that the bombing at the Boston Marathon would have disabused people of the notion that all Muslim extremists are “swarthy Middle Eastern-looking guys.” There are plenty who look like typical Northern Europeans.

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The story I saw on CNN’s front page earlier today was that ISIS does not have the capability to pull off something in the US.

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It really doesn’t take anything more than 2 or 3 nutjobs with guns to pull off a terrorist attack in a crowded area. I’m sure they have the nutjobs here, and getting guns isn’t going to be that hard for them at all.

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Headline now reads, ‘No specific, credible threat’.

Not seeing any articles/reports of that kind originating domestically.
(…Maybe those Dumb-Asses were stuck on the Beltway & ran out of gas…?)

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If ISIS really intended an imminent attack on DC, they wouldn’t wait till now to steal guns. An organization that can plan what they did in Paris will have everything they need long before they intend to use it.

At least, that’s what I think. I’ve been accused of overplanning…

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Black Friday sales, but would anyone notice.

Declan

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Googling that, I see that many news outlets are mentioning a video, purportedly from ISIS (okay, it’s DAESH now) threatening DC, but nobody knows if it’s authentic. True, it’s Monday evening now and I think this has been out there all day already, and I didn’t actually open and read any of the stories. This post itself may be obsolete even as I’m typing it.