The Answer To Terrorism

[Dale00]

Excerpts from an interesting article by Massad Ayoob

The Israeli Answer to Terrorism

...In the last two years especially, street terrorist attacks in Israel have repeatedly been shortstopped by armed Israeli citizens. A terrorist opens fire at a crowded bus stop; a passing Israeli motorist draws his 9mm pistol and cuts him down. A late-arriving security man with an M-16 hoses the twitching terrorist just to make sure.

Another terrorist attempts to trigger an explosive device in a public place. An Israeli housewife draws her pistol and shoots him dead before he can detonate the bomb. The would-be martyr dies alone.

A third terrorist opens fire with an automatic weapon in an Israeli school. What could have been a mass murder on the scale of Columbine or greater is limited to a very short casualty list when Israeli parents and grandparents, who have provided volunteer armed security after receiving state training, open fire and kill him with their concealed pistols.

Note that in each of these episodes, it was an armed citizen who stopped the terror. Not a soldier. Not a security guard. Not a police officer....

...Israel wisely publicized the fact that the civilian volunteer guards, indistinguishable from the regular teaching and administrative staff, would be in place [in schools]. It served as a tremendously effective deterrent. No Moslem fanatic who wants to go to Allah as a successful warrior who has slain many infidels visualizes himself making the trip after having been shot down by some geriatric with a gun before completing his mission. Any head trip as arrogant as that of a self-styled martyr cannot tolerate the thought of an ignominious death at the hands of an ordinary victim. It would be like a wolf picturing its own throat being torn out by a sheep: simply unthinkable, and therefore a natural deterrent.

Of course, the politically correct hand-wringers want nothing to do with this. Sadly, being helpless themselves, sheep tend to instinctively fear anything with canine teeth. Many of them cannot distinguish between the wolf and the sheepdog, and thus fear them both equally. We have seen this phenomenon in the knee-jerk reaction against arming pilots, for example, in the wake of 9/11. Never mind that it has worked remarkably well for the commercial air fleets of Israel and Russia in preventing hijackings. We have seen it in the adamant refusal of many to even think about armed protectors inside schools. Never mind that from Peru to the Philippines, as well as in Israel, institutional arming of school personnel or selected volunteers with appropriate training has put an end to murderous armed attacks on school grounds.

http://www.backwoodshome.com/articles2/ayoob81.html

 

[dutchwrangler]

There was a time in this great nation that the people didn't ask permission of the benevolent government to carry a firearm on their person. When the bad guys acted up, more often than not the honest citizens promptly dispatched them to a warmer climate. If firearms weren't discharged, they often were used to persuade bad guys to fit their necks into a short rope hanging from a tall branch.

For me it always comes down to asking, "What would Jefferson do?" I have a feeling he'd shoot first and ask question later. Sad to see that we're no longer the nation that he and the other founders fought for...

 

[RETOKSQUID]

For me it always comes down to asking, "What would Jefferson do?" I have a feeling he'd shoot first and ask question later. Sad to see that we're no longer the nation that he and the other founders fought for...

Came to that conclusion after returning home from my first deployment many moons ago. A fact that was proven time and again after each subsequent deployment.

 

[Cinaet]

I think we should arm everyone with their hand-held weapon of choice, pass out free ammo, and then schedule a non-football weekend where we have one great big giant shootout.

 

[sanjuro893]

I think we should arm everyone with their hand-held weapon of choice, pass out free ammo, and then schedule a non-football weekend where we have one great big giant shootout.

I was totally against this until I saw that it would be a non-football weekend.

 

[Danny Tanner]

Awesome read, thanks!

 

[EFsDad]

I think we should arm everyone with their hand-held weapon of choice, pass out free ammo, and then schedule a non-football weekend where we have one great big giant shootout.

Coming June of 2011

The Guinness Book of World Records will be present to take an official count at

THE GREAT AMERICAN SHOOTOUT 2011

 

[MaddSkillz]

Thanks for posting!

I've said it before and I'll say it again. America and Americans would be much safer if our liberties were in tact as they were intended to be. Instead we have a government that has stripped us of those liberties in exchange for their "protection."

 

[Blinocac200sx]

This was good aside from the fact that he kept emphasizing the "appropriate state training" thing. Somehow, state training is not comforting to me.

 

[SwampPapa]

Coming June of 2011

The Guinness Book of World Records will be present to take an official count at

THE GREAT AMERICAN SHOOTOUT 2011

is this a kernel of hope, or is this in the works?

switzerland has shutzens scheduled for the populace