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What can America learn from Israel on mass killings?
2018-11-12
[Washington Examiner] The senseless attack on defenseless youth at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has shocked the nation, and everyone is grasping for solutions.

In Israel, where the threat to our youth is mainly from Islamic terrorists, rather than from random crime and sick individuals, we have commonsense solutions to the problem of shooting attacks in bars, schools, and other public places, and those principles can be applied in America. The basic idea is to keep the guns in the hands of the good, stable, well-trained people, and only of those who need them to protect themselves or others.

For starters, not everyone can get a gun license in Israel. And there are stringent background checks that can sometimes take weeks or months to investigate and process. Secondly, every school and most public buildings, restaurants, and bars have at least one trained armed guard and sometimes several.

In addition, virtually every public space has armed citizens, all licensed after extensive background checks, with many being very well-trained in their capacity as members of local emergency response teams. Furthermore, many schools and other public places also have security cameras.

Last, but not least, remember that violent attacks really do not occur randomly. Just as terrorism happens for a reason, however sick and unjustified, so too with senseless violence, which usually occurs when there is a vacuum of values.

When there is an absence of solid family and spiritual structure in the home and in schools to provide those values, the ensuing loneliness, chaos, and anger are often given safe passage, ultimately leading to such horrible, violent attacks.
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  I've said it before, put your tin foil hat on, it's almost like somebody wants these things to happen. The obvious reason, of course, would be to get an excuse for repeal of the Second Amendment. Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get me.

I was amazed that nobody lost their jobs after the Parkland High shooting because there were so many obvious failures. That church shooting in Texas where the Air Force failed to enter a known felon into the federal database for background checks is another example. Did anybody lose their job for that? I never heard about it if they did.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-11-12 12:00  

#3  We do too, grom. The problem is, certain people in law enforcement continually do nothing when they have red flags waving in their faces. In almost all of these cases, we find out after the fact that law enforcement agencies knew about these people and did nothing.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2018-11-12 11:53  

#2  In Israel we know who they are
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-11-12 08:22  

#1  Israel doesn't have a large armed criminal population. The criminal gangs there are mostly unarmed drug dealers.

The US doesn't have terrorist loving neighbors.

The two situations are different.

Posted by: lord garth   2018-11-12 08:19  

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