Life in a gun-free zone
NEW YORK (AP) — A brazen daylight hatchet attack against a group of police officers on a busy New York street was a terrorist act by a reclusive Muslim convert... Police were examining [the attacker's] computer for clues about a motive.
"This was a terrorist attack, certainly," [Police Commissioner William] Bratton said... [The attacker] purposely targeted four rookie New York Police Department officers... [an] officer was hit in the back of the head and fell to the ground... As the suspect raised the hatchet again, the two uninjured officers drew their weapons and fired several rounds, police said. The bullets killed the assailant and wounded a bystander... Both [victims] were [listed as] critical.
Evil incarnate neither has, nor needs, a motive.
While we have an estimated half-million radical muslims in the USA, I suspect that this guy's problem was also drug-related. Like others before him, I suspect that his record will show a history of drug abuse.
Regardless of what the experts designate as a cause, It pays to be ready to deal with people like this.
/fl