Mumbai Attacks

http://in.reuters.com/article/topNews/idINIndia-36809420081201

Framing this attack as an "intelligence failure", or a lack of preparedness on the part of Indian security forces, misses what should be an obvious point: There are few cities in the world in which 20 guys with machine guns and a deathwish could not have done similar or greater damage.

There is, best I can tell, only one workable defense against these sort of attacks: A reasonably well armed civillian population. To the degree that we need to fear these sort of attacks on American cities, we ought to consider loosening urban gun control laws.