They're Not Evil Geniuses, Okay?

While I don't want to belittle the danger posed by Daesh or other islamic inbreds, I do want to make one point.

The breathless reporting about the "mastermind" of the Paris attacks is a bit much.

What we're talking about here, is a few guys with guns. (Let's ignore the "suicide belts" for the moment*)

Guys with guns can easily, with very little planning, create death and destruction and mayhem and craziness anywhere they want...particularly when everybody else is forcibly disarmed.

There's not much "masterminding" necessary to tell a few drooling barbarians to go shoot up a concert hall.

We in America had a similar situation in a movie theater not so long ago.

No masterminding necessary.

Here's the plan:  "Take your guns, and go shoot up as many people as you can before the cops kill you."

I could mastermind that. In fact, I just did.

So, can we please stop with the near admiration of these scum, by imagining they did something singular, or organized or well-planned, or special?

Let's understand that what's happening here is simple, easy, criminal and mean; not complicated or skillful plots that must be "masterminded".

These scurvy hicks pick up guns and shoot innocent, unarmed people. Any cretin can figure out how to do that.

Doesn't mean they're not dangerous. Just means they're not tactical geniuses. Indeed, they're mundane, tedious, banal, everyday killers.

And you know what? We know how to deal with them.

/gun


*suicide belts are no different. (Indeed, they're easier. Long guns are harder to hide.) You put one on, you walk into a crowd of people, you blow it up. Not complicated. No "mastermind" necessary.