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So, I was thinking about a brief exchange I had a little while ago with @gattsuru, as well as an earlier thread on the arrest of the guy who started the Palisades fire (plus perhaps some other comments here and there about how mass shooters and such tend to have poor target selection, as is entirely understandable with their being of generally unsound mind), I find myself asking: setting aside very-low-probability scenarios, how much damage could a reasonably-competent solitary actor — “a lone man with a grudge against the world,” to quote @Edawayac_Tosscount — pull off in a single “attack”?
It’s unfortunate that answering this question earnestly is so unwise. Brainstorming A) how much destruction one person, or a small team of people, could cause, and B) how best to prevent someone else from following through on those plans, would be a very fun discussion, especially in a group of smart people with diverse backgrounds. But as almost everyone else has mentioned, it would be extremely foolhardy to actually mention any concrete ideas in a forum such as this, or really, in any place where there’s a chance one of the participants might be tempted to follow through.
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