Also, the good guys with guns need to be properly trained professionals. Anything less is asking for more problems than it solves.
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And just how many would have never started to begin with had they been made to feel included, had they been hugged, had someone talked to them, had someone understood their inner turmoil, had foreign troops not invaded their home, had the wanton bombings never started, and so on and so forth?
I agree that when incidents like what happened in the UK occur, the best way to end them is with indeed good guys with guns. However killing a few bad guys doesn't solve the problem of why they exist in the first place. Wouldn't you agree it's better to solve the problem before "putting enough lead in them" becomes the only option?
There is literally no excuse for the psychopaths that did this.
I choose option 4, don't let them in to begin with.
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And just how many would have never started to begin with had they been made to feel included, had they been hugged, had someone talked to them, had someone understood their inner turmoil, had foreign troops not invaded their home, had the wanton bombings never started, and so on and so forth?
I agree that when incidents like what happened in the UK occur, the best way to end them is with indeed good guys with guns. However killing a few bad guys doesn't solve the problem of why they exist in the first place. Wouldn't you agree it's better to solve the problem before "putting enough lead in them" becomes the only option?
This.
Islam has no place in Europe.
That's neither here nor there. It IS in Europe, and everywhere else in the world. And as a religion, it has every right to be there, and everywhere else in the world. And that is speaking as a staunch atheist. Attempting to clear out a religion would be futile. Religious justification aside, what these radicals are doing is creating random chaos... potentially anywhere. The immediate stopgap is citizens seemingly just as random being in a position to intervene to put a much quicker stop to these attacks.
I admire and respect the police as a citizen and as a former emergency services worker, but they simply can't be everywhere we need them to be, all the time. It really does come down to the cliche expression that when seconds count they're minute away. We can't reasonably expect better, so we need to get recruit the citizenry.
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And just how many would have never started to begin with had they been made to feel included, had they been hugged, had someone talked to them, had someone understood their inner turmoil, had foreign troops not invaded their home, had the wanton bombings never started, and so on and so forth?
I agree that when incidents like what happened in the UK occur, the best way to end them is with indeed good guys with guns. However killing a few bad guys doesn't solve the problem of why they exist in the first place. Wouldn't you agree it's better to solve the problem before "putting enough lead in them" becomes the only option?
*Unpopular opinion warning*
And just how many would have never started to begin with had they been made to feel included, had they been hugged, had someone talked to them, had someone understood their inner turmoil, had foreign troops not invaded their home, had the wanton bombings never started, and so on and so forth?
I agree that when incidents like what happened in the UK occur, the best way to end them is with indeed good guys with guns. However killing a few bad guys doesn't solve the problem of why they exist in the first place. Wouldn't you agree it's better to solve the problem before "putting enough lead in them" becomes the only option?