Now for some historic and strategic facts for why bomb shelters are needed for US defense. The article is not about bomb shelters. It's about the reasoning behind bombing civilians and international laws. International laws don't mean shit, thus the need for bomb shelters.
http://www.crf-usa.org/america-responds-to-terrorism/firestorms-the-bombing-of-civilians
Some quotes. But I suggest reading the whole thing.
"But the attack on Guernica turned out to be only a preview of a new type of war. In this new "total war,"
military strategists purposely tried to destroy entire cities and their civilian populations."
"An influential Italian military writer, General Giulio Douhet, actually argued for the sustained bombing of civilians.
He predicted that they would become quickly demoralized by such bombing and would force their leaders to surrender."
"In February 1942, the British abandoned their "precision bombing" strategy. For the rest of the war, the British concentrated on the systematic widespread destruction of German cities by RAF nighttime air raids, a strategy called "area bombing." One reason the British took this fateful step was to "dehouse" the German people,
which hopefully would shatter their morale and will to continue the war."
"After Germany surrendered in May 1945, America wanted to quickly end the war against Japan. As plans went ahead for a costly invasion of the Japanese islands, Major General Curtis LeMay took command of the bombing campaign against Japan, which had started in late 1944. Having studied British area-bombing tactics,
LeMay decided to adopt them in a final effort to force the Japanese to surrender."
"He believed that his firebombing tactics would force Japan to surrender before American forces were scheduled to invade the homeland."
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The Allied area bombing of civilians played an important role in undermining the will of the German and Japanese people to continue the war."
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Bombing civilians is a military tactic to destroy moral and force the country to surrender. This can be mitigated somewhat by having bomb shelters. Bomb shelters for civilians in high population areas is a defensive tactic to mitigate the tactic of demoralizing the population. It's not about making libtards feel safe, it's about winning a large scale war.
The US is woefully unprepared for this type of war. China and Russia, along with others, are not so unprepared. They have bomb shelters to mitigate the tactic of civilian bombing. The US does not. And, it's fucking stupid.
So, yes. This independent libertarian(me) does believe the US should have bomb shelters in high population areas for the defense of the Country. It doesn't make sense to not have them, especially when other countries do.
Unless of course you're in the "We're all gonna die!" crowd. But then, you probably should just lay down and die now. Get it over with. I'm not in that crowd, I'd like to win that war. I don't want the libtards in the cities to give up because they have been demoralized by bombing tactics designed to make them want to quit.