{"id":16369,"date":"2016-06-17T11:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hcstx.org\/?p=16369"},"modified":"2016-06-17T11:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T16:34:21","slug":"rkba-news-will-gun-control-stop-terror-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/17\/rkba-news-will-gun-control-stop-terror-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"RKBA News: Will Gun Control Stop Terror Attacks?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>As a supplement to this article, check out this headline from Jihad Watch: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jihadwatch.org\/2016\/06\/ramadan-in-france-muslim-planned-knife-and-machete-jihad-attack-on-tourists\">During Ramadan in France, Muslim plans KNIFE and MACHETE Jihad Attacks on Tourist<\/a>,<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u00a0This combined with the over 100 Palestinian knife attacks on Israeli civilians and military this year only verifies the authors statement below and something I have been saying for some time: INTENT by these Terrorist is the operative word we need to focus on, not AVAILABILITY of Weapons. -SF<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16370\" src=\"https:\/\/hcsblogdotorg.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/06\/charlie-hebdo-police-murder.jpg\" alt=\"charlie-hebdo-police-murder\" width=\"598\" height=\"407\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re angry. I get it. I\u2019m angry too. The latest terrorist attack in Orlando is unbelievably tragic, but not at all surprising. The only thing surprising is that terrorist attacks like this have been this long in coming.<\/p>\n<p>The signs have been there forever, and I\u2019m not even counting dramatic Al-Qaeda type operations like 9\/11. More recently, we\u2019ve seen a series of smaller scale attacks right here at home. Fort Hood. Oklahoma. Garland, Texas. Chattanooga Recruiting Stations. San Bernardino. David French writes a compelling piece about this, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/436545\/orlando-shootings-gun-control-nra-not-our-enemy-isis-is-enemy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you can read it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hold on to your shorts, because there\u2019s a lot more attacks like this one on the way, and probably soon. They\u2019ll have\u00a0nothing to do with our gun laws. When someone out there is intent on killing, there are an infinite number of ways to do that. Just last night, an <a href=\"http:\/\/christianexaminer.com\/article\/another-isis-attack-in-paris-claims-life-of-policeman-wife\/50795.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ISIS-inspired attacker killed a Paris police captain and his wife<\/a> with a knife. Intent is the operative word, not availability.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Consider a few examples:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The San Bernardino terrorists were running a <strong>bomb factory<\/strong>. In California.<\/li>\n<li>Ever heard of the Happy Land Nightclub in the Bronx? While the motivation was different, he killed 87 people there with nothing more than a<strong> can of gasoline.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Or how about the Monterrey Casino narco-terrorist attack? Again, terrorists used nothing more than a few cans of gas to kill 61 people.<\/li>\n<li>We seem to have already forgotten the Boston Marathon attack. A couple of homemade pressure-cooker bombs killed three and wounded 264. Two hundred and sixty-four. Only thanks to the ineptness of those terrorists was the death toll that low.<\/li>\n<li>Then, of course, there were the attacks in Paris, arguably one of the gun control capitals of the free world. 130 dead and 368 wounded. And Charlie Hebdo. 11 dead and 11 wounded.<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t forget Mumbai, another bastion of near total gun control. 164 dead and 308 wounded.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Sadly, I could go on, and on, and on. Do you know what all these attacks have in common? Either guns were not used, or the attacks occurred in areas of heavy firearm regulation or outright restriction.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The point here is that determined attacks like these aren\u2019t about guns or no guns. They\u2019re about determined attacks. That\u2019s the key word \u2013 <strong>determined.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My wife made an observation that I wholeheartedly agree with. In response to situations like this, people need something tangible to latch onto. Subconsciously they know the cause of the problem is really, really hard to solve. In a fear and shock-induced state, they need something corporeal to grasp so they can begin to process. It\u2019s in our nature to latch onto a way to just fix it, thereby bringing some peace and hope that it won\u2019t happen again.<\/p>\n<p>If you recorded the last couple of days of news and played it back later when emotions settled, you\u2019d be shocked at the knee-jerk solutions that normally rational people called for. Secret government lists. Confiscation. Arrest and punishment without due process. Guilt by investigation, not prosecution. Our willingness to drop all pretense of our most cherished principles when driven by fear is truly stunning.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that quick and easy tactical fixes don\u2019t work \u2013 especially those that are based on half-baked understanding of the issues and driven by fear and emotion. That\u2019s not my opinion or theory; one only has to look back in time to see that proven out again and again. Coming to rational, and most importantly effective, solutions requires that people step away from the temptations of knee-jerk reactions and think.<\/p>\n<p>The even more horrible thing about ill-conceived, fear-based \u201cfixes\u201d is that they are dangerous. The ill-conceived \u201cgun free zone\u201d \u201cfix\u201d has directly CAUSED the needless deaths of untold numbers of innocent people. Murderers and terrorists seek out these \u201cfixed\u201d areas exactly because of that stupid sign on the door. That\u2019s why I\u2019m so passionate about this. It\u2019s not because \u201cI like guns.\u201d It\u2019s because my heart breaks when people die needlessly because of stupid, ineffective, and emotional \u201cfixes\u201d that cause more needless death than they prevent. If you\u2019re going to get actively involved in fixing problems, great! Just don\u2019t do it from a position of emotion and fact-free opinion. If you do, you\u2019ll be partly\u00a0responsible for more needless death.<\/p>\n<p>Zeroing in on the tools that terrorists use won\u2019t help future attacks any more than it helped the victims of Paris and Mumbai \u2013 two places that implemented incredible levels of the tactical fixes that people are now suggesting.\u00a0Does the conceptual approach of limiting \u201ctools\u201d work any better when trying to solve drunk driving? Would low capacity beers reduce the number of drunk driving murders? How about making crack and heroin illegal? If we just outlaw easily available means of distribution that\u2019ll cause addicts to stop using it, right? The same conceptual plan worked well during the prohibition, right? In all of these examples, the root cause \u2013 desire \u2013 is ignored.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a reason I chose examples of drunk driving murders and drug abuse. Those are both scenarios where the offending \u201cproduct\u201d has no societal value. Banning those substances wouldn\u2019t have a boomerang effect and cause more harm as a result.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guns are a different story. While many gun control proponents leap to the assumption that guns only impact one side of the balance sheet \u2013 they only cause bad things \u2013 they neglect to factor in the positive impact. When you ban the ability for law-abiding people to defend themselves, you also remove all the cases where someone used a gun to defend against crime or attack. It\u2019s intellectually dishonest not to factor that into the overall cost-benefit math. Depending on whose numbers you read, that happens between one and two million times a year. Wave the magic wand and figure out how much death and injury occurs if you remove the tools for self-defense from law-abiding citizens.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While few will want to hear this, there was nothing magic or incredibly destructive about the weapons used in the Orlando terrorist attack.<strong> There weren\u2019t any military machine guns involved here.<\/strong> Just a well-planned plot and a guy with a rifle. A regular, everyday rifle.\u00a0Against a defenseless and captive victim community, a determined attacker can inflict unbelievable harm in minutes using the most basic of weapons. In this case, he had hours.<\/p>\n<p>Only because details matter, there\u2019s nothing special about a semi-automatic rifle. It shoots once each time you pull the trigger, and as far as rifles go, the one used in Orlando is on the lower end of the power scale. People get worked up about the theoretical issues of magazine capacity, but if you go back and look at what actually happened in previous terrorist killing events, regardless of the type of weapon used, all of them could have been completed by the murderer, to equal effect, using an 1860\u2019s-era lever-action rifle. People won\u2019t want to hear this, but the actual rates of fire and magazine issues were simply not a factor. Rarely have one of these sick killers fired more than 10 rounds from a magazine. Rarely has their rate of fire exceeded 12 rounds per minute. We can assume and suppose hypotheticals, but they\u2019re just that. \u201cYeah but imagine if\u2026\u201d arguments.\u00a0If you really are serious about solving the hard problems, you have to take an objective look at what actually\u00a0happened in previous events.<\/p>\n<p>My point isn\u2019t to get nitty gritty or defend certain models of guns, it\u2019s to point out that what has been the determining factor in every one of the prior cases has not been the specifics of the equipment. I has been the will, determination, and planning (usually of location) of the murderer. That\u2019s exactly why I\u2019m so focused on the fact that nothing gets fixed until we look to the root cause \u2013 the people willing to do these horrible things.<\/p>\n<p>Since the beginning of people, there has been and always will be a minority percentage who are willing to inflict harm on others. That won\u2019t ever change, so the only remaining question is what do we do about it.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a lot we can do starting with getting rid of these attractive targeted killing zones. Every single mass murder case since the 1950\u2019s (except two) has one thing in common \u2013 a sign on the door (literally or legally) says \u201cHey, the people in here aren\u2019t able to protect themselves.\u201d That\u2019s an invitation to terrorists, mass murderers, or whatever you want to call them. Time after time, in the post-event analysis, it comes to light that the murderers chose their location specifically for the reason that they knew they would have a period of time of total domination with no opposition.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m all for cracking down on people with documented (\u201cdocumented\u201d is the key word) histories and records. If you\u2019re convicted of a crime, you already don\u2019t pass the FBI background check. However, if someone thinks bad thoughts but never crosses paths with law enforcement, there\u2019s no way to \u201ccatch them\u201d with a background check, which is exactly why you also have to plan for stopping these people in their tracks. Wouldn\u2019t it be even better if that plan could also discourage the perpetrators from even trying?<\/p>\n<p>There are 13 million \u201cgood guys and girls\u201d with concealed carry permits across the US, and that number is growing rapidly. These people jump through hoops to obtain their permits and statistically are the most law abiding demographic measurable. During the past 30 years, they\u2019ve demonstrated themselves to commit crimes at a rate multiple times less than that of active duty police officers. Yes, while I have limitless respect for our law enforcement community, you read that right.<\/p>\n<p>One or two people like this, who aren\u2019t prohibited from carrying in a whole slew of places can put a stop to these things before they become tragic events. In Florida, about eight people out of every 100 have a concealed carry permit. In this nightclub crowd of 320, that means 25 people may have left their gun in the car due to the \u201cgun free zone\u201d legal status of that space.<\/p>\n<p>Concealed carry in a bar? Well, yes. In bars, you\u2019ll find designated drivers who choose to stay sober in order to drive their friends home. What\u2019s so hard to believe about the most law-abiding group of people measurable choosing not to drink when they carry? After all, it\u2019s against the law to drink and carry in most, if not all, places, and concealed carry permit holders have proven they follow laws.<\/p>\n<p>Would an armed citizen have stopped this? Maybe or maybe not, but they certainly would have disrupted it. This terrorist had three hours of complete and total dominance over his victims. One person can disrupt that plan. One person. That person may or may not succeed, or even survive, but that person has the opportunity to provide disruption, potentially changing everything about the outcome. While it would be great if they were, that person doesn\u2019t need to be a DeltaNinjaSeal. <a href=\"http:\/\/monsterhunternation.com\/2015\/06\/23\/an-opinion-on-gun-control-repost\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As Larry Correia explains, they only need to be a speed bump<\/a>\u00a0and provide delay and disruption. That makes all the difference and may even end the event altogether.<\/p>\n<p>For an example of the power of disruption, look up Clackamas Mall, Oregon. You won\u2019t hear much about it on the news simply because it never became a mass tragedy. One citizen with a pistol disrupted the plan of a mass murderer \u2013 enough to cause him to flee to a stairwell and shoot himself. There are lots of cases just like this that don\u2019t make NBC news exactly because they never became mass tragedies, simply because of disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Setting aside the incredible impact of disruption, these attacks all end exactly the same way \u2013 every single time. Good guys arrive with guns. If the thing that immediately stops a bad guy is the arrival of a good guy with a gun (every single time) I\u2019d prefer to have the good guy already there.<\/p>\n<p>The average police response time during a terrorist attack like this is nine minutes. That includes calling 911, dispatching law enforcement teams, assessment of the situation, formulation of a plan, and execution of that plan. That nine minutes is an eternity when people are at the mercy of a terrorist. Everyone is happy and thankful when the cops show up with a thousand or so guns. But many are freaked out by the thought of that cop\u2019s next door neighbor, who is also trained and proven to be law-abiding, having one.<\/p>\n<p>None of us want to accept or endure pure evil. But guess what? It exists. It always has, and it always will. There are people out there who want nothing more than to kill you and others. Are you going to deal with that reality by burying your head in the sand? Are you going to succumb to the temptation of a simple feel-good \u201cfix\u201d knowing deep down inside that it will accomplish nothing?<\/p>\n<p>Or are you going to lift your chin up and address the real problem?<\/p>\n<p>Read the Original Article at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ammoland.com\/2016\/06\/will-gun-control-stop-terrorist-attacks\/?utm_source=Ammoland+Subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=6f8b2d1c10-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_6f6fac3eaa-6f8b2d1c10-20724777\">Ammo-Land<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a supplement to this article, check out this headline from Jihad Watch: During Ramadan in France, Muslim plans KNIFE and MACHETE Jihad Attacks on Tourist, \u00a0This combined with the over 100 Palestinian knife attacks on Israeli civilians and military this year only verifies the authors statement below and something I have been saying for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3312,3786,5445,389,391,1704,5072,13,2574,74,2045,1405,7251,2413,2726,1928,3553,2990,5549,4579,1189,402,272],"tags":[6266,4326,1942,12303,12304,1083,3699,12305,1645,470,12306],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}