Detroit's top cop: Armed citizens are a terror deterrent

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From the Detroit News:

The city's police chief said he believes violent extremists would be reluctant to target Detroit, as they had Paris last month, for fear armed citizens would shoot back.

"A lot of Detroiters have CPLs (concealed pistol licenses), and the same rules apply to terrorists as they do to some gun-toting thug," Chief James Craig said. "If you're a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens."

Oakland University criminal justice professor Daniel Kennedy agreed that terrorists would be reluctant to attack armed citizens.

"We don't have laboratories where we can test these theories, but there is something to the argument that terrorists want a high body count — and if they can only shoot a few people before they're taken out themselves, it wouldn't have the kind of impact they want.