Something to think about

[unixronin]

In 1974, Palestinian terrorists launched an attack into Israel which culminated in them taking more than 115 hostages in the Netiv Meir elementary school, 105 of them children.  They then proceeded to issue demands for the release of 23 terrorists being held by Israel, or they would kill the hostages.  When elements of the Golani Brigade stormed

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[perspicuity]

the response to this i hear is "you would turn our schools into prisons"

yup. i would. though, they're not prisons. the inmate come and go, are protected, and kept from harm. oh, no free health care ;)

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[docstrange]

Point out in return that they want to turn all of society into a mental institution.

What I've been posting on Yahoo! News . . .

[mr_spock]

The following was in a newsletter that I got from Oathkeepers.org shortly after the Connecticut school shooting, and I've been posting it all over the Yahoo! news forums (on every shooting-related news article that comes up) ever since

[fair_witness]

Have you seen this?

[unixronin]

I have now. Without having seen LaPierre's speech, I suspect it's a bit of a response to something that I at least wasn't saying. Obviously it's a part of a larger picture, but the fact remains it works. Saying that Israel is defending against ongoing terrorism instead of against occasional maniacs does not weaken the argument; defending against trained, determined terrorists is harder.

[fair_witness]

I'd argue that it's not so much a case of "it works" ("it" meaning the armed volunteers in schools) as it is a case of a number of things working together that work in the country implementing them. Australia's response to the Monash University shooting was arguably the exact opposite of the Israeli solution, and it's worked well for them, too