When I tell people that I run Israeli Combat Training sessions, using Israeli counter terror methods and techniques, I frequently get the following question:
"Why do people need to learn counter terror techniques, isn't an advanced concealed carry class enough?"
The answer I always give is that they need to plan for the worst case (within reality) scenario and they must learn how to focus their training on Combat Mindset and advanced combat handgun techniques based on the aggressive Israeli methods of counter terror combat.
Even then, after explaining this thought process and the reasoning behind it, I still receive skeptical looks and questions, like:
"According to the statistics, most gunfights are over in a few seconds and statistically you never need a second magazine......Ben, you are just a bit over the top, don't you think?"
My answer continues along the same path as above, that you must always expect the unexpected and you must prepare for the eventuality of a terror attack.
Yes, a terror attack. On our soil. In our own big cities and little towns.
When a gunman attacks a Church, that is a terror attack.
When a Gunman attacks a mall full of people, that is a terror attack.
When Muslim fanatics plan to launch a violent Jihad on your local shopping mall, that is a terror attack. And you might be smack in the middle of it!
Just read this current news article.
(Folks, this is the real deal. Time to get our collective heads OUT of our asses and realize that we face a future where terror attacks become the norm.)
Feds: Mass. man planned terror attacks on US malls
BOSTON – A 27-year-old Massachusetts man conspired to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, federal prosecutors said Wednesday as they announced his arrest.
Tarek Mehanna of Sudbury sought — but never received — training in terrorist camps and worked with others from 2001 to May 2008 on the conspiracy to "kill, kidnap, maim or injure" people in foreign countries and the politicans, authorities said.
The politicians were members of the executive branch who are no longer in office, authorities said. They refused to give their names.
Prosecutors said Mehanna conspired with two other men: Ahman Abousamra, who authorities say is now in Syria, and an unnamed man, who is cooperating with authorities in the investigation.
The three men discussed their desire to participate in "violent jihad against American interests" and talked about "their desire to die on the battlefield," prosecutors said.
Mehanna had "multiple conversations about obtaining automatic weapons and randomly shooting people in shopping malls," Acting U.S. Attorney Michael Loucks said. Their plan was thwarted when they could only get handguns, not automatic weapons, he said. Prosecutors would not say which malls had been targeted.
They also hoped to attack U.S. troops stationed in Iraq.
Mehanna told the FBI that Maldonado was living in Egypt and working for a Web site. But authorities said Maldonado had called Mehanna from Somalia urging him to join him in "training for jihad."
Authorities said Wednesday that Mehanna and his conspirators had contacted Maldonado about getting automatic weapons for their planned mall attacks.
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