“Soft targets” have long been of concern to counter-terrorism officials, even as venues have increased security and added metal detectors and even bomb detection equipment. But it’s clear those measures cannot prevent a gunman hellbent on killing.
But on social media, concerned shoppers worried that something much worse was going on, sending panicked messages on Twitter and Facebook and warning others to stay away from the store.No one was injured, and the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department found that the weapon in question was a BB gun.in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, nearly a week after communities were left reeling by a shooting at the Garlic Festival in nearby Gilroy.
But the former top counter-terrorism cop who helps analyze security risks said such efforts to detect and prevent assailants can go only so far as a wide culture shift on guns and ammunition is needed. Monique Carrillo, 29, is all too aware that a mass shooting could happen without warning. When she entered the Walmart in Torrance on Monday morning, she thought about places where she and her baby daughter could hide in the event of such an occurrence.
Downing said the Los Angeles Police Department threat assessment and mental health evaluations regularly track potentially threatening individuals by sending out mental health professionals to assess people and ensure they don’t have the means. L.A. County Sheriff Alex Villanueva said his department is “constantly evaluating” potential threats on a minute-by-minute basis. The challenge, he said, is obvious soft targets.“That is a tough call,” he said. “It takes a lot of guts to do that, but we expect the deputy to do that.”“We have lost some of our innocence,” he said.
Mass shooters were able to evade gun and ammunition measures set in place in the states they lived in, he added.
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