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    "When seconds can mean the difference between life and death, the police are only minutes away."

    True then true now, true always. The only way to reduce or stop the carnage from these insane mass murderers, is for ordinary people to be able to go armed when they think they need to. Most won't, but a few will. And potential mass murderers will know someone probably has a gun, but won't know who - it might even be someone in the next classroom.

    Even in hotbeds like the Middle East, why are there relatively few school shootings by single, deranged individuals? Becaus even the insane ones know they won't be able to shoot very many innocent people before getting suddenly dead themselves... and so they mostly don't bother trying.

    They aren't afraid of dying - they know they will eventually be shot by police, but they commit their murders anyway, knowing they can knock off dozens before the police get to them. But if someone in the class or in the next room has a gun, they won't be able to roll up such an impressive tally of dead bodies before they go down. Seems hardly sporting, as the British say. Take away the murderers' reward (posthumous horror at the extent of the carnage), and what reason would a mass murderer have to kill anyone any more?

    Concealed carry of weapons by private, law-abiding citizens. As always, the best way to ensure the maximum (however imperfect) amount of safety for society... and still frantically resisted by the Big Government Left and the liberal press that kowtows to them.

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    BELLEVUE, Wash., March 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An armed student at Jerusalem's Mercaz Haray seminary played a crucial role in stopping a gun-wielding terrorist Thursday, but the American press is downplaying his heroism because it proves that armed students can stop campus gunmen, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.

    Yitzhak Dadon, 40, was described as "a private citizen who had a gun license and was able to shoot the gunman with his pistol" by reporter Etgar Lefkovitz with the Jerusalem Post. However, many news agencies in the United States are downplaying Dadon's decisive role in the incident.

    "Yitzhak Dadon is a hero," said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, "and he is living proof that armed students have a place on college campuses. Thankfully, his quick action was reported by the international press, including Mr. Lefkovitz, so unlike incidents here in the United States where the press was able to completely ignore the actions of armed students or teachers, the truth about this incident will not be suppressed.

    "Mr. Dadon is not going to become a victim of this conspiracy of silence," Gottlieb continued. "Elitist American college administrators, the national press, nor anti-gun politicians can sweep this incident under their rug."

    Internationally published reports say Dadon studies at the yeshiva, and had his pistol when the shooting erupted. When the gunman emerged from a library, Dadon reportedly shot him twice in the head. The gunman was subsequently shot by the off-duty soldier.

    "Yitzhak Dadon's apparently well-placed bullets interrupted a rampage," Gottlieb said. "What a pity that someone like Mr. Dadon was not in class last April at Virginia Tech. What a tragedy that anti-gun extremism would keep him from attending class at Northern Illinois University. He would never be allowed to teach at Columbine High School, hold a job at Trolley Square in Salt Lake City, or go shopping at Omaha's Westroads Mall.

    "America's acquiescence to anti-gun hysteria has led to one tragedy after another," Gottlieb stated. "This disastrous policy has given us nothing but broken hearts and body counts, and it's got to end. The heroism of an armed Israeli seminary student halfway across the world sends a message that we needn't submit to murder in victim disarmament zones. That's why his actions are getting such short shrift from America's press. It's a story they are loathe to report because it affirms a philosophy of self-reliance that they despise."
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    And have you noticed NONE of the gun fraidy cats want to touch this. This guy kept deaths to a minimum because he thought quickly and acted. We will never know how many lives he actually saved. For that I am sure those people and their families are thankful.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Socrtease View Post
    And have you noticed NONE of the gun fraidy cats want to touch this. This guy kept deaths to a minimum because he thought quickly and acted. We will never know how many lives he actually saved. For that I am sure those people and their families are thankful.
    The leftists in our government always enact the most restrictive laws on law-abiding gun owner, after some tragedy like Virginia Tech or the Columbine shootings, etc. And the laws they enact, invariably have no effect whatsoever on people who want to murder lots of their fellow men - they only restrict people who obey laws. It's becoming more and more clear, that that's exactly who the leftists WANT to restrict. They could enact laws that work instead, quite easily if they wanted to.

    Wayne LaPierre, then-VP of the National Rifle Association, commented on this tendency in the Clinton administration in 2000. He was right on the money when he said "I've come to believe that he needs a certain level of violence in this country. He's willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president, too."

    Incidents like this one in Israel are common, where a law-abiding citizen who armed himself was able to stop a masscre before the police could do it, or the one in a Colorado Springs church where an armed woman did the same thing even more quickly, or even the incident in Pearl, Mississippi where a teacher was able to stop a student from killing other students. Such facts tend to debunk the wild predictions spread by the Big-govt advocates, that law-abiding people with guns will result in more killings, not less. So it's no surprise that such facts are absent from the press's reporting on them.

    In Israel, though, they have an enforced interest in keeping themselves alive in the face of fanatical murderers all around them. They can't afford to play games with laws that feel good but don't work, or playing politcis with death as U.S. leftists chronically do. They have to enact laws that WORK, or they're DEAD.

    And so they permit students to carry concealed weapons to class. Lo and behold, no OK-Corral-style gunfights over somebody's lunch money. But not many insane murderers in their schools, either... and the rare one who does try, winds up quickly dead and unable to keep killing innocent people.

    We could learn a lot from Israel... if our politicians didn't mind the message and its proof.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Socrtease View Post
    And have you noticed NONE of the gun fraidy cats want to touch this. This guy kept deaths to a minimum because he thought quickly and acted. We will never know how many lives he actually saved. For that I am sure those people and their families are thankful.
    Speaking only for me - since I'm a proponent of functional gun control (in my own nation I hasten to add) - maybe there's nothing to mention? That must be it.

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