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Just in reading the original question it seems dependent on the scope of the attack and duration. I mean that the 1st responder may be the armed citizen with a CCW at the scene who may be able to take a couple bad guys out prior to LEO's arrival. Your LEO is going to be the initial official response because of 911 calls to any incident and until they know it's an organized terrorist event(s) they'll continue to respond to multiple sites till the light comes on. Unless you, as a American citizen, are ready to have LEOs or Military walking the streets, airports, etc with automatic weapons as you see in countries outside the US you will be the first response to any incident because you're there. I feel the circumstances would play out similar to 9/11. Who were the 1st responders who actually "took it to the terrorists" citizens on flight 93. When faced with certain death or fighting to live they made a decision which undoubtably saved lives at the target that wasn't hit. Unfortunately, in a terrorism scenario, the terrorists have already done all their planning and are executing while LE, FBI and Military will all be starting at zero. By the time these orgs figure out the program the terrorists will be bunkered up and you'll need a JDAM to get them out or the damage will have already been done. 20,000 troops in Texas don't do you a bit of good if they hit 20 different cities across the country on the same day. Sort of like having a pistol in your pants and the bullets in the trunk.
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