Shooting at the WHCD

[breamfisher]

One thing to consider... this guy got all of his gear legally in California. So, commonsense gun laws didn't prevent an assassination attempt.

[Wambli Ska]

Everything but the guns could have been gotten at a flea market or off Prime, cheap poop stuff. I believe both guns are on the CA "approved" list. And yes, common sense gun laws don't do ****...

[Zee]

Without saying much. I’ve worked with them a lot. There is a difference in the level of skill/training/ability between the “Uniformed”, “Suited”, and “Tactical” entities of the SS.
In this incident, you get a glimpse of all three. The first two are out front and window dressing, basically. They are the visual. The knuckle draggers are kept in the closet (LITERALLY), out of sight. Because they offend sensitive sensibilities. They are only allowed to come out when they “break glass in case of emergency”.
Personally, I prefer the porcupine effect. If you look like a porcupine. Act like a porcupine. Fight like a porcupine. Most won’t screw with you.

[Zee]

Keep in mind. Tactical thinking dudes don’t run the SS. Bureaucrats do.

[breamfisher]

Keep in mind. Tactical thinking dudes don’t run the SS. Bureaucrats do.

This is true of a lot of government agencies, not just ones where folks are armed.

[Bigslug]

I think complacency has to be built into the defense mechanism, at least to a degree. You can't be razor sharp, all the time, day after day, when NOTHING happens, and all the sheep around you really are sheep. A thin perimeter tends to assume that perimeter is going to be airtight, and it won't be if it's made out of bored humans.

World War 1 had a lot of bored humans, but the perimeters were practically impenetrable because they had a lot of depth to them. If you have one sleepy slap-**** watching a stretch of barbed wire, the enemy will eventually sneak through. If you have ten slap-dicks watching the same stretch of wire, and have another ten slap-dicks randomly bombarding it with artillery, the enemy will have to get MUCH more creative.

It's not practical to weed out slap-dickery in such settings - - it needs to be integrated.

That is 100% complete bullcrap.

Complacent and guarding the most powerful people in the WORLD don’t go together in the same sentence, let alone the same dictionary. There’s zero room for complacency at the top level of high speed low drag operator types.

We aren’t talking about the lardass cops that the only thing they can outrun is a donut. Secret Service. Guarding the POTUS.

And yet, here we are. . .