I took a lot of flak for my commentary “Lone Wolf Terrorizes Australia,” December 15, 2014. This excerpt might explain why.
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The “Breaking News” is that police stormed the café after nearly 17 hours of futile negotiations. Never mind that negotiating with a Muslim terrorist is like swimming in quicksand.
Reports are that, in the conflagration that ensued, the gunman and two hostages were killed, and several others injured. But it would not surprise me to learn that the police did all of the killing and injuring – given what seemed like the thousand rounds of bullets they fired just to kill this one, lone wolf.
Meanwhile, the opportunity clearly presented itself numerous times throughout this standoff for a sniper to take him out with one bullet…
In any event, this obliges me to repeat my view that, post 9/11, it’s almost always better to take one’s chances by fighting back as soon as one of these situations arises…
[T]hink not to flee in fright, but to stay and fight!
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Well, now comes this:
A hostage who died during a siege in a downtown Sydney cafe was killed when she was struck by fragments of a bullet fired from a police officer’s gun as authorities stormed in to end the 16-hour standoff, a lawyer told an inquest on Thursday.
(The Associated Press, January 28, 2015)
Police gunfire seriously injured three other hostages as well….
Enough said?
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