Lipush
Gold Member
The left in this thread are trying to focus on Republican politics instead of seeing the real threat that is right in front of them.
Especially rdean. Despicable
Q. What is the real threat
A. A man with a gun
This week a terrorist opened fire in a Tel Aviv shopping mall. This had the potential for a massacre but instead only 4 people were killed. You want to know the difference? Israeli authorities are armed to the teeth. All heathy individuals serve in the military.
1. All Israel Jews conscripted to be soldiers at age 18. Not all serve but a decent amount do serve.
2. More Israeli's know how to correctly handle a crisis situation because their military training comes into play.
3. A gun doesn't sprout legs and start shooting, it requires an outside force to activate it and deactivate it. You get a person with a gun who is willing to die for their beliefs the only thing that's going to stop him is another person with a gun. If he doesn't have a gun he will use another means of destruction so the problem isn't the gun, it's the human. He could kill just as easily with a pressure cooker bomb.
Conscription in Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israeli forces are a more used to "mass casualties events" than the west. That is one reason. Second, Israel has a lot more cases of 'civilian heroism' in case of terror attacks, like you yourself pointed out.
Another thing is, not all civilian wackos are free to carry guns.
This is a crazy world, I tell ya.