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The IRA agrees with this.
I know service members who agree with it. They signed on to stand between the citizens and the predators. They are, for the most part, sheepdogs by nature, not wolves, not sheep. Given the choice between the shooter going after Marines or walking into a shopping mall and shooting up soccer moms, or getting on a municipal bus and killing those aboard, they say "bring it on."
They'd much rather that they had guns too, of course.
There's a lot in that article I agree with. I know it's not popular to say so, but at least this guy did actually go after military related targets, not just random women and children for extra terror value. It is also true that we routinely target recruiters and training bases as legitimate military targets. We just blow them up with drones, and as often as not we kill unrelated people unlucky enough to be nearby at the wrong time. Bombs don't discriminate.
The U.S. has been in many wars but it has been a long time since the horrors of war have been visited on this country. War is something we watch on television, "Shock and Awe" on CNN, live and in color. There has not been substantial destruction and bloodshed here since 1865. There was some shelling, ships sunk off the coast in WW I and II, but there's been more destruction in Syria in the last month than this country has suffered in war in the last hundred and fifty years. We need to suck it up and understand that this sort of thing is going to happen. It is almost impossible to prevent such a strike if the person committing it is willing to die in doing it, whether he wears a suicide vest into a movie theater or he climbs a hill with line of sight to a football stadium's seats with a couple of rifles and a dozen magazines.