Incompetent terrorists.

[kwassa]

Sometimes I think we are saved from many terrorist acts by the sheer incompetence of those attempting to kill us.

A new case in point, and not to take away from the bravery of those men that overpowered this guy on the high speed train from Belgium ...

after they disarmed and captured the would-be terrorist, and took away his AK-47, one of the rescuers ....

Mr. Skarlatos, the AK-47 in hand, began to patrol the carriages, looking for other gunmen. He made a series of startling discoveries: The suspect’s guns had malfunctioned, and he had not had the competence to fix them.

“He had pulled the trigger on the AK. The primer was just faulty, so the gun didn’t go off, luckily,” Mr. Skarlatos said. “And he didn’t know how to fix it, which is also very lucky.” In addition, the gunman had not been able to load his own handgun: “There was no magazine in it, so he either dropped it accidentally or didn’t load it properly, so he was only able to get what appeared to be one shot off,” Mr. Skarlatos said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/23/world/europe/americans-recount-gunmans-attack-on-train-to-france.html?_r=0

[leveymg]

1. Or designed to fail.

What happened to the other gunmen?

[kwassa]

2. What other gunmen?

[Fred Sanders]

3. Lone wolf white folk are never terrorists...lone wolf brown folks always are, and can never be alone...

the white media will make excuses for the white killer and do no searching for connections - there is xenophobia and fear of the brown man to spread after all...so as to keep the fear alive for the white folk.

Logic and evidence must not stand in the way!

[NutmegYankee]

5. It depends - White guys like Eric Rudolph are considered terrorists by the FBI.

But he also had a political agenda - which is required to call an act "terrorism". Insane people who commit a shooting are just insane - not terrorism. For instance, the black man who killed 12 Navy employees at the Washington Navy Yard is not considered a terrorist. He wasn't motivated by politics, it was just madness.

[HERVEPA]

6. Way to extrapolate from an innocent coment.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

[Nye Bevan]

7. I'm pretty sure white people can be "terrorists".

[Fred Sanders]

8. My mistake....white Muslims can be terrorists, that was a new discovery of white folk.

[NutmegYankee]

9. I'm curious - The FBI labeled Timothy McVeigh and Eric Rudolph as terrorists

Since you are the only one arguing that they are not - what do you consider them?

[NutmegYankee]

4. It's hard to believe a person doesn't know how to clear a misfire.

To load it the guy would have needed to rack the action - it's the same to clear a misfire.

More likely the guy, having no combat training, just froze up once the gun jammed. Someone is running at you and your weapon just failed to fire - that is the epitome of an Oh Shit moment!

[lpbk2713]

10. He had his Michael Corleone moment.

He came out of the bathroom with just his d*** in his hand.