On Thu, 23 May 2013 13:26:27 +0100, "Mrcheerful"
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g.odon...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>Bill wrote:
>>> Why is it so interesting, anyway?
>>
>> Because it doesn't fit the sort of profile being pushed by the media
>> who seem to be slowly working towards the idea that the whole thing
>> was a planned attack.
>>
>> Running your car into a passing young man wearing a T-shirt that may
>> or may not indicate that he's a serving soldier and then hanging about
>> awaiting the inevitable arrival of the cops doesn't seem like what
>> we're used to.
>>
>> We're used to a more sophisticated approach from terrorists.
>>
>> This one could have been part of the film 'Four Lions'.
>
>I wonder why armed soldiers from the barracks were not immediately
>despatched.
Because they're obviously not routinely armed.
They have guns but no bullets are issued unless there's a specific
threat.
Ammunition will be held, usually, in a locked locker within a locked
room in the guard house and has to be signed for.
The regulations for issuing the stuff will lay down exactly when it
can be issued, and chances are that unless there are either intruders
on the base or gunfire or an explosion has been heard it won't be
issued.
Besides, British army soldiers on guard almost invariably have
pick-axe handles available, and those would have been adequate for
this.
> as for a twenty minute wait for armed Police
They have released the response times today. It was ten minutes
>I also think it is a bit sad that members of the public did not 'subdue' the
>attackers, there were plenty enough watching.
How do you 'subdue' a raving madman with a cleaver in one hand and a
large knife in the other?