HOW TO FIGHT TERRORISM

Hi Humans,

There have been terrorist attacks in the USA in the last decade or so, and many have been perpetrated by Islamic terrorists instigated by ISIS and similar organizations. The most prominent have been the attack on a Gay bar in Orlando, on a party in San Bernardino, and at the Boston City Marathon by Islamic terrorists. The Oklahoma City bombing and the attacks on abortion clinics have been by Christians. You might also include the many mass killings (like Sandy Hook and too many others to list them all) by mentally deranged humans with easy access to guns. I am not aware of any major terrorist attacks in the US by Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, or Pagans. Unlike Europe, most people in the US are descendants of immigrant and comfortable with assimilation. Here most terrorists are “lone wolfs” inspired but not immediately directed by foreign forces. So how does one fight that kind of terrorism?

1.    Gun control. The Orlando murderer used an assault weapon that enabled him to kill many humans quickly. Assault weapons should not be available to the general public.

2.    The killer had a history of being interviewed by the FBI on 2 occasions for possible associations with militant groups. The bar needs to be lowered for red lights that should deny a questionable human from owning a gun, especially an assault weapon. However with the present gun anarchy that exists in the US, even if there were such a law concerning gun store sales, a criminal could just buy a gun at a gun show or online or get one from a friend or relative. All transfers of guns should be registered with the government and regulated at gun stores, gun shows, private sales, gifts, or in any manner. Assault rifles or magazines that accommodate multiple bullets should be illegal for anyone other than the police or military. All guns should be registered and any gun transfer should be registered and controlled. Any gun that is lost without notifying the authorities or transferred without a registration and background check should be illegal and cause the owner or transferer to be criminally libel for any crime committed using that gun. These laws should be made at the federal level. They are too serious to be left to the states. In most matters I favor progress by evolution rather than revolution, but in the matter of gun control, revolution is needed to correct the gun epidemic as soon as possible. It is an emergency.

3.    None of the above will happen if the Congress is left to the Republicans who have been slavishly under the thumb of the NRA and the gun anarchists. This upcoming election will be an opportunity to elect Hillary Clinton and a Democratic Congress to end the gun anarchy and bring the gun insanity under control.

4.    The government should have the ability to monitor the internet and emails and break encryption as much as is needed to catch potential terrorists. Privacy is important, but this is a war and our defenders need whatever tools and intelligence are needed to find and disrupt the enemy.

5.    ISIS should be destroyed. It can not and should not be done by America alone. It needs to be done together with allies. It needs to be done in a war of ideas. Military war alone is not enough. Trump’s bluster will accomplish nothing other than alienating the allies we need to do the job.

I know the above would freak out the gun anarchists and the NRA, but that is what this little dog thinks. What do you humans with your big brains think? You can make comments.

Chloe