Terror Attack in New Orleans

I suspect the gun is more for him to kill himself once the deed is done, or get a cop to kill him. He likely killed many more people with the vehicle than he did with the gun.

Why do you suspect that?

Seems likely, but Iā€™m not sure what your point is, or if you are just hitting yourself with a non sequitur for some reason.

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Because a gun is basically useless when 10 or so cops are closing in on you. Itā€™s also harder to hit and kill someone unless you rain a bunch of bullets downrange. So I suspect the gunā€™s just there so he can kill himself and not face the music.

I donā€™t think thatā€™s what happened though, not from what Iā€™ve read and seen/heard on video. He seemed to have gotten out the truck shooting, not at himself, otherwise there wouldnā€™t have been so many shots fired.

You seem to be idly speculating. Be nice if we could keep the discussion factually based.
New Orleans attack latest: Police probe suspect motive, possible accomplices

The alleged attacker then exited the damaged vehicle armed with an assault rifle and opened fire on police officers, law enforcement officials said. Jabbar was also armed with a handgun, sources told ABC News.
Officers returned fire, killing Jabbar, a U.S.-born citizen from Texas, sources said. At least two officers were injured, one by gunfire and the other when the officer was pinned by the truck, authorities said.

Yeah, maybe not.

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Yes, he killed more people with the vehicle than the gun. Weā€™re unable to ban vehicles. Your point is?

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Seeing he was an army reservist, oddly who served at the same base as the Cybertruck bomber.

Multiple people are suspected to be involved

Youā€™re kind of inadvertantly making the argument that we should limit high capacity weapons.

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Not true regardless of the number of attackers. The weapons you have are useful until you are dead.

In any case Iā€™m curious whether other weapons were also available for the attacker or if it was deliberate to only bring one handgun instead of, or in addition to, a rifle and shotgun.

Most other terror attacks involving firearms typically involved levels of over-caching and preparation. If not for unconfirmed reports of this individual travelling to Cairo for contact with the Muslim Brotherhood I wouldā€™ve ventured it was a very bad mental breakdown that took place.

ā€œThereā€™s a number of red flags when you look at this [attack], including the attackerā€™s age ā€“ not really the kind of prototype for an individual to be radicalised. The fact that he was in the US military, so I think it bears caution for sure,ā€ said Colin Clarke from Soufan Center, a foreign policy and global security think tank based in New York.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar sounds like a prototypical Islamic extremist name :sweat_smile:

It sounds like this is what happened. This guy was living the American dream. Went to Georgia state and was making 6 figures. Looks like the divorce messed him up and left with in financial ruins and he was probably disillusioned and walked into an angry mosque that told him the problem was the American infidel.

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He reportedly had a rifle along with a pistol.

Nidal Hasan was 49 at the time of the Ft Hood shooting. Maybe our policies in the middle east donā€™t just radicalize Muslims in the middle east, but those home grown as well. Or maybe itā€™s Texasā€¦

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Were they there at the same time?
If they were roommates, that might be more significant. Military bases are huge, and some are training facilities that pretty much everyone goes through.

Thereā€™s something in the constitution that has been interpreted to mean that canā€™t happenā€¦

Nope. Capacity limits have been ruled constitutional and are in place in California (amongst other places) and was part of the old assault weapons ban.

Cyber Truck too strong to be used as a vehicular bomb. Thatā€™s a selling point, I guess.

Where are those ISIS videos, Joe?

Questions raised by Biden comments about New Orleans attacker | Watch

President Biden said Wednesday that the New Orleans truck attacker had posted videos online that showed ties to ISIS, but so far those videos havenā€™t surfaced publicly.

Howā€”odd.

Iā€™ve only given this a cursory read, but it seems to me that connecting the dots between the savage of NOLA and progressive college douchebags is thin. Iā€™m waiting for some Muslim theologians to stand up and say, Hey! Heā€™s not one of ours!

The ā€˜intifadaā€™ comes to New Orleans - spiked

ISIS my boney ass. Why not just carry an ANARCHY flag? GTFOOH with that ISIS shit. Fucking looser. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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The silence from Muslim leaders whenever terror attack carried out in the name of Allah is deafening. I donā€™t know if itā€™s because thereā€™s no Muslim pope, or something else. But while I wonā€™t say Muslim imams never speak out against terrorism done in the name of Islam, but itā€™s the exception, not the rule.

https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-joins-new-orleans-muslim-community-in-mourning-victims-of-bourbon-street-attack-denouncing-daesh/

I bet for any given attack, I can easily (within seconds) find you examples of Muslim leaders denouncing itā€¦

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The Muslim community from where the driver got incubated telling members to refer any law enforcement inquiries to CAIR

I do know for a fact that many Friday preaching often talk about how evil the west is, how Israel murders people. They might not outright call for terrorism but they do their best to not actually do that, yet making Muslims feel that terror attacks are justified.