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.
Because a gun is basically useless when 10 or so cops are closing in on you. Itās also harder to hit and kill someone unless you rain a bunch of bullets downrange. So I suspect the gunās just there so he can kill himself and not face the music.
I donāt think thatās what happened though, not from what Iāve read and seen/heard on video. He seemed to have gotten out the truck shooting, not at himself, otherwise there wouldnāt have been so many shots fired.
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.
Not true regardless of the number of attackers. The weapons you have are useful until you are dead.
In any case Iām 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 wouldāve ventured it was a very bad mental breakdown that took place.
āThereās a number of red flags when you look at this [attack], including the attackerās 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
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.
Nidal Hasan was 49 at the time of the Ft Hood shooting. Maybe our policies in the middle east donāt just radicalize Muslims in the middle east, but those home grown as well. Or maybe itās Texasā¦
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.
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.
President Biden said Wednesday that the New Orleans truck attacker had posted videos online that showed ties to ISIS, but so far those videos havenāt surfaced publicly.
Howāodd.
Iāve 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. Iām waiting for some Muslim theologians to stand up and say, Hey! Heās not one of ours!
The silence from Muslim leaders whenever terror attack carried out in the name of Allah is deafening. I donāt know if itās because thereās no Muslim pope, or something else. But while I wonāt say Muslim imams never speak out against terrorism done in the name of Islam, but itās the exception, not the rule.
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.