RW: the Answers are Guns & Genocide

Salon wrote:
“When you look at Paris — you know the toughest gun laws in the world, Paris — nobody had guns but the bad guys. Nobody had guns — nobody. They were just shooting them one by one, and then (authorities) broke in and had a big shootout and ultimately killed the terrorists.” “You can say what you want, but if they had guns — if our people had guns, if they were allowed to carry — it would’ve been a much, much different situation.”

Salon wrote:Ben Carson carried on weirdly about how humans have large frontal lobes unlike animals and also discussed his plans for a no-fly zone over Syria on Fox News Sunday:

CARSON: And I would make sure that the Russians understood that we are going to do that.

WALLACE: If I may press my point, what do you do if – after we shoot down a Russian plane, they shoot down one of ours?

CARSON: If they violate it, we will, in fact, enforce it. And, you know, we’ll see what happened. You know, too, for us to always be backing down because we are afraid of a conflict, that’s not how we became a great nation, Chris.

WALLACE: But you’re talking about getting potentially into a shooting war with Russia over Syria?

CARSON: Well, if we established a no-fly zone and we make clear the rules, if they violate it, that’s why you have a no-fly zone. That’s the very definition of a no-fly zone. You can’t fly there.

(Salon edit: "This is actually a welcome evolution from his earlier stance that “rules” in war are a form of political correctness. [This, by the way, is the man who former CIA director Michael Hayden says has all the right instincts.]")

Salon wrote:Ted Cruz, meanwhile, called for some good old fashioned shock and awe, apparently, under the logic that we need to be less tolerant of civilian casualties because the terrorists are intolerant of civilian casualties. As with the other candidates, it’s unclear how this will help prevent terrorism in other countries, but it seems to get the crowds excited.

Salon wrote:Mike Huckabee has a serious plan to “bomb the absolute stink out of them. It’s going to have to be an aggressive air campaign followed up by a group of ground troops.”

Salon wrote:“You take it to them in Syria and Iraq. You destroy ISIS. And then you build a coalition to replace this radical Islamic terrorist threat to our country and to Europe and to the region with something that is more peace loving. We have to be engaged in this. This is not something you can contain. Each day that ISIS exists, it gains new energy and more recruits around the world.

“We should declare war, and harness all of the power that the United States can bring to bear, both diplomatic and military, of course, to be able to take out ISIS…"

Stormee wrote:The enemy terrorists have automatic weapons, hand guns, no matter how expert a marksman you are are no match for them.