Police Chief Craig: Armed Detroiters cut terror risk

[alp227]

Source: Detroit News

The city’s police chief said he believes violent extremists would be reluctant to target Detroit, as they had Paris last month, for fear armed citizens would shoot back.

“A lot of Detroiters have CPLs (concealed pistol licenses), and the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug,” Chief James Craig said. “If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens.”

Oakland University criminal justice professor Daniel Kennedy agreed that terrorists would be reluctant to attack armed citizens.

“We don’t have laboratories where we can test these theories, but there is something to the argument that terrorists want a high body count — and if they can only shoot a few people before they’re taken out themselves, it wouldn’t have the kind of impact they want.

Read more: http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2015/12/01/police-chief-says-armed-detroit-cut-terror-risk/76592116/

[niyad]

1. whatever you are smoking, chief, do you share?

[onehandle]

2. Plenty of studies out there that deny that 'theory.' nt

[former9thward]

16. I think the Chief knows about real life.

Not ivory tower 'studies' or 'studies' funded by those with agendas.

[LanternWaste]

27. I dismiss research too when it doesn't validate my bias.

I dismiss research too when it doesn't validate my bias. Academics can be so inconvenient to our myopic and dogmatic minds, and as its immediate dismissal allows rational thought to be trivialized, it also inflates our own self-validation and pretense.

Quite the win-win we have going on there!

[Fast Walker 52]

3. you have to be a serious wingnut idiot to want more people with guns as a police chief

this guy sounds more sane--
"Josh Horowitz, director of Washington, D.C.-based Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said, however, the risk of someone encountering a terrorist is minimal compared to the risk of harm caused by having a gun.

“The chances of running into a terrorist are small, but you’re increasing your risk if you have a gun,” he said. “Even assuming you’re going to be useful against terrorism, you’re increasing your own risk the rest of the year. Is that the right balance for your family? That’s the question you need to ask.

“Are there specific instances where having a firearm can be helpful? Of course. But you have to balance the overall chances with the increased risk of homicide or suicide you face when carrying a firearm. It’s not really an either-or question. The bottom line is, carrying concealed weapons doesn’t make communities safer.”"

[rocktivity]

4. Apple and orange comparison

America's problem is NOT armed terror groups shooting citizens, it's armed citizens engaging acts of terrorism.


rocktivity

[sarge43]

5. Ah Chief, a lot of these murderous nut cases are suicidal.

So they'll wear a vest packed with C4 and a dead man switch .... bang and boom. A citizen with a 38 is the least of their concerns and they'll get their high body count, including Rambo wannabe citizen.

[Plucketeer]

6. Man, do I feel sorry for the rational-thinking folks

who are stuck in Michigan! The whole damned state is run by RUBES! Yeah Chief - every gun that comes out in an exploding situation is gonna find it's intended mark. How in the HELL did you get to be a chief of police???

[951-Riverside]

7. With all the murders & robberies in Detroit I'd think even terrorists would be scared to go in there

Actually, if there was a terrorist attack in Detroit no one hardly notice.

[maxsolomon]

8. The Wisdom of the Misinformed

Lazy Thinkers in positions of Authority everywhere in this Godforsaken Nation.

[Maeve]

9. Yeah, cuz suicide bombers don't want to get shot!

[Rafale]

10. Shoot a suicide bomber in the head and

He won't detonate. Regrettably I know it for a fact.

[PSPS]

15. LOL. I guess your suicide vest is one of the older models.

[MoggyMedley]

23. Shooting a suicide bomber in the head

seems like a guaranteed way of making the bomb go off, at least if he/she has control of the trigger/detonator.

[GGJohn]

21. Iraq veteran? eom.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

11. We already have a "high body count"

30,000 + gun deaths a year.

[turbinetree]

12. Hey, Chief.................................

do the citizens of Detroit do this test everyday, like the one they did in Texas, last January -----------------your logic to say the least is just as insane has these guys and girls down in Texas, when they did this "experiment"


http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gun-group-finds-armed-civilian-wouldn't-have-stopped-charlie-hebdo-attacks

[951-Riverside]

13. I'd rather shelter in place and wait for the professionals to show up over getting into a gunfight..

with terrorists.

Chances are I'll miss and get killed almost immediately or become the primary target of multiple terrorists and even police officers who would mistake me for being part of the attack.

No way, no how am I having any part in that.

[alp227]

28. better link

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gun-group-finds-armed-civilian-wouldnt-have-stopped-charlie-hebdo-attacks

[d_legendary1]

14. Is a police chief of a major city advocating vigilantism?

HOLY COW

[former9thward]

17. He is advocating to not be a victim.

Many like to go through life being that.

[sarge43]

20. No, he's advocating a free fire zone

with a corresponding friendly fire causality rate

[d_legendary1]

25. Didn't know that ISIS victimized the city of Detroit

I guess its up to us to put an end to their reign of terror! With our guns!

[muntrv]

18. Let's test that theory on domestic terrorists like oath keepers.

[MoggyMedley]

24. It's definitely 'out there'

Society is more or less coming apart at the seams

[llmart]

19. This is about the most irrational thing I've heard yet.....

I'm actually at a loss for words.

[NickB79]

22. It's similar to what DC police chief Cathy Lanier recently said: "Take down the gunman"

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/22/cathy-lanier-dc-police-chief-urges-public-to-take-/

In a surprising comment, Metropolitan Police Chief Cathy L. Lanier is encouraging ordinary citizens to subdue or even kill active gunmen if they can as the “best option for saving lives before police can get there.”

During an interview Sunday on CBS’ “60 Minutes,” Chief Lanier was asked what should people do if they are in the vicinity of an active shooter like the ones who terrorized Paris on Nov. 13.

[-none]

26. When you pull out your gun to take down the active shooter you in turn become another active shooter

How the hell the police to know who is who?
Don't they do interviews for police chief positions anymore to weed out the incompetent?