An Experiment

Reading The Diplomad 2.0 today got me to thinking about his suggestion and about what we might do to stop the rash of school shootings. I think we should set up an experiment to see which of two approaches might work better to reduce this mayhem:

Experiment #1: Get rid of school (and other) gun-free zones. For the first ten years, permit and encourage any responsible and trained adult to carry a gun in our schools ... open-carry for any uniformed personnel and closed-carry for others -- teachers, coaches, etc.

Experiment #2: For the second ten years, return to a gun-free zone policy in our schools but totally ban anyone from purchasing semi-automatic military-style rifles or their ammunition.

Comparing the results over this 20-year period should tell us which policy to go with long term. I strongly suspect that this second decade test would not be necessary.

Headlines

These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Trump: 'I disavow alt-right groups'

Politico editor RESIGNS after publishing home addresses of alt-right icon Richard Spencer, advocating 'baseball bats'

Iran warns of retaliation if USA breaches nuclear deal ...

Mom: Bus driver asked children: 'Who's ready to die?

Australian population grows solely due to new migrants

HUD has no answer as to why its financial books are worthless

Top 0.7% of world's population controls $116.6T of wealth

Schweizer: Letting Hillary off hook 'definition of rigged system'

Clinton campaign may challenge election

Winning: Pentagon to end 'gun-free zones' on military bases

Kim Jong-un pens nine page letter to Trump listing grievances

Satellite abandoned in 1967 mysteriously comes back online ...

The Answers

What is the solution to increased Islamic terrorist attacks inside the United States?


- Not being willing to identify the motivation of the terrorists?

- A mad dash to allow more unvetted Muslims to immigrate into the U.S.?

- Increasing the number of gun-free zones? (The Pulse nightclub was one ...)

- Running vanity shots of the killers on the covers of Rolling Stone magazine?

- Continuing to slow-walk the defeat of ISIS?

- Disrespecting Israel?

- Disallowing undercover surveillance inside Mosques?

- Closing Gitmo and sending many internees back to the Mideast?

- Giving Iran, the chief sponsor of world terrorism, $150 billion?

- Closing down "see something, say something" FBI investigations because of PC concerns?

- Increased government funding of CAIR and other such organizations?

- Inviting the Muslim Brotherhood back to the White House?

- Electing Ms. Benghazi, Hellery Clinton, as our next president?


In other words, more of the same is going to fix things ...