Deadly Weapon Protection and Crisis Response

By Joe Gilliland | September 2, 2019

  • September 4, 2019 at 7:19 am
    PolarBeaRepeal says:
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    The key point of this article, hosted on an insurance website, is found in the first paragraph; i.e. how to protect against and prevent violent attacks. Note that the article discusses gun violence WITHOUT calling for seizure of guns or an incremental approach to that end.

    I used the ‘term violence resulting in mass casualties’ rather than ‘gun violence’ for good reason. We are approaching the 18th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the US. We saw after that airplane-based attack, a series of mass casualty actions using bombs (Boston Marathon) and cars in France and England. In the US, but also in many other nations, machete, knife, IED, and suicide vest attacks on numerous individuals is becoming more common due to the presence of MS-13 in the US and other Latin American countries, and al Qaeda, ISIS, Talibani, and Hamas in Middle Eastern nations.

    The author offers insurance products to cover the gun violence situations, with prevention and mitigation being important components of the solutions. Kudos to the author for remaining principled in discussing details and potential solutions, and avoiding biased political commentary.

  • September 4, 2019 at 7:23 am
    PolarBeaRepeal says:
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    I used ‘used’ instead of ‘will use’ to open the 2nd paragraph due to changing my mind mid-stream of consciousness. Bear culpa.

  • September 5, 2019 at 11:02 am
    Jon says:
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    Once again, conservative misinformation and fear-mongering. MS-13 is not a real issue of the size your political party makes it to be. Suicide vest attacks are nowhere near as common as gun attacks in the US. You’re spreading nonsense.

  • September 5, 2019 at 3:55 pm
    Smooth says:
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    MS-13 is now the largest gang in America. MSNBC did a pretty good story on them earlier this year. They are well funded, fearless and have access to guns like no gang ever has. There are none of these folks in my area, so I’m not sure how large they are, but apparently they are big in NY at least as that is where the MSNBC filming was done. They also said most of their recruits come from prisons across the US. I guess when certain people are incarcerated, they are recruited by MS-13. Seems like an odd recruiting style, but I don’t know anyone in a gang, so it’s hard to say if it’s different from other gangs or not. The biggest difference they pointed out is all the MS-13 members “report” to someone outside of the USA. Not a bad idea as it keeps their top people from being arrested so the guys in power stay that way.

    I may be in the minority on this, but if you are here illegally, a known gang member and carrying weapons on top of it…. Well, isn’t that what we have a Military for? Let the National Guard, or a small group of Marines ask them politely to go home.

    • September 5, 2019 at 5:00 pm
      Jon says:
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      https://www.snopes.com/news/2018/02/11/what-is-ms-13/

      Just going to leave that there. Your side really likes to exaggerate their danger.

      Where’s your evidence that they’re the largest gang in America? And by America, you do mean Central America right? In 2018, the gang accounted for less than 1 percent (10,000) of total gang members in the United States (1.4 million), and a similar share of gang murders.It’s not like they’re beating down our doorstep. There are news articles almost weekly about random gun violence deaths from white men, what was the last major MS-13 shooting? You’re deflecting from the real problem with a created boogeyman.

      Most gangsters are peripheral members, there are very few hardcore gang members. This is an inflated issue that the right has used to further justify their heinous immigration practices. They yell about MS-13 while caging children, and the right laps it up. Do some research on the subject, you might be surprised.



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