March 7th, 2008 at 10:48 am
“Note: This occurred in Israel, a certified police state.”

A “police state” that allows it’s citizens to be armed? Where students openly carry rifles on a campus? That dos’nt sound like any “police state” I ever heard of but if I’m wrong then please enlighten me.

(The “Hardal” religious group apparently has its own brigade in the IDF that doesn’t use conscription to recruit soldiers. So, it’s kind of hard to tell.)

In the afternoon, National Public Radio had two segments on the shooting within half an hour of each other. The first identified the person who stopped the terrorist as a “soldier” and the second identified him as a “policeman.”

Why the distinction? Was the seminary student a reservist with his rifle nearby? Or a student who was also a policeman? Or was he simply an armed seminary student?

This might, in a perverse way applicable only to US liberal media, fall under the “Only Ones” category used on another blog…..

Because the police and military are the only ones competent enough to have stopped an armed shooter like this, if you can’t believe that an adult, legally armed student could have done it.