Comments from a wise friend, I hope you'll read this and think about it.

Gary Gobel is a good friend from 50 years now. In all that time, I have never felt him to be anything but a levelheaded and intelligent, along with astute, individual. Even if we weren't friends I would admire him. He was a Karate student of mine, the tall guy in the center.

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I have great respect for Israel and anytime one of her unfriendly neighbors have tried to take that powerhouse on, they have had their butts handed to them. I have never understood antisemitism, it seems just illogical and cruel to me.

That said, you are a free American Citizen, and you can donate to and even go fight for Ukraine or Israel, just leave our government out of it. 

Further, the largest foreign lobby in our government is the Israeli lobby that funds pro-Israel candidates and works against anyone campaigning for office that is not an Israeli supporter.....this is done in our representative republic. I have an issue with that as such foreign lobbies, in my opinion, should be illegal in this country. This is our government, our tax revenue, our armed forces and NOT theirs. Period and unless there is an American Lobby in their government I have not heard of,  it needs to stop now.

The Camp David Accords of 1978: "Notably, the treaty that resulted from the second “framework” also called for the United States to provide both countries with billions in annual subsidies, including military aid. Under the terms negotiated, Egypt receives $1.3 billion annually in military aid from the United States, while Israel receives $3 billion".............this is the only reference that I could find on line now regarding US payments but previously I found that the payments were $1.8 billion annually to each or a $3.6 billion a year since 1978. That tax revenue (45 years at $3.6 billion came to $162 billion) would have upgraded a whole lot of stuff in this country and there is no peace in Palestine.

Further, if any nation on this planet owes a debt to Israel, it's Germany and not us. You see Germany defending Israel?

G.Gobel.

Idaho Murders Point out that "it's the criminal, not the weapon, stupid!"

 https://www.foxnews.com/media/nancy-grace-dissects-revelations-idaho-murders-suspect-went-intent-kill

The above misguided article focuses on the statements made by the alleged murderer when he was arrested. What everyone conveniently misses routinely is that the focus is on the weapon, not the criminals. The left wants to give a pass to criminals and prosecute the weapon, preferably a gun. The damnable leftist narrative is obscuring the real problem. 

We are faced with a mental health crisis and we have our collective head in the sand. The HIPPA laws, originally designed to promote efficient sharing of medical information, have instead allowed equally misguided leftist activists to shield criminals from justice. Also, it is practically impossible to intervene to stop an obviously dangerous juvenile from killing people. This is both dangerous and unnecessary. While everyone acknowledges it to be true, nobody wants to buck the system or defy the narrative and do something about it. Stupid is as stupid does. 

The solution is simple. We stop pretending there is a problem. We hold everyone to the same standards. If a mentally ill person is competent to be on their own in society, they are subject to as strict enforcement and scrutiny as anyone else. In juveniles, we must realize that the safety of the society trumps confidentiality. Period, end of discussion. If a child is dangerous, that child should fall under the same strictures as a violent felon or sex offender. Dangerous people should be under public scrutiny, institutionalized, or both. If any person willfully allows a dangerous child to be allowed to hide behind confidentiality, they are as guilty of the crime done by that child as the perpetrator is, and should face severe criminal penalties. Period, end of discussion.

Any DA who allows known dangerous criminals to go free should face felony charges if that individual harms another person. All prison sentences should be done in solitary confinement. Prisons should not be cages for gay rape or gang havens. Every prisoner is someone who does not belong in society and should be completely isolated for the duration of their sentence. The recidivism rate would drop precipitously and self  rehabilitation would become the norm. Simply rational. 

There is no quicker way to a police state than the policies and agenda of the Left. Unbridled crime and lack of civic training and responsiblilty for our youth create a weak population, afraid to defend themselves and dependent on an increasingly corrupt government. This devolves inevitably into a police state. The anti-2nd amendment activities of the left are the first steps into a police state. No totalitarian state ever thrived in the face of an armed and trained citizenry. This is simple historical fact.

Armed and trained citizens are the first line defense against any governmentaley oppression and against crime and violence. Law enforcement departments are constabularies. They have one and only one mandate: maintain public order. The only on site defense against crime is the armed and trained citizen. Police arrive after the crime, bag bodies, take reports and investigate. Nothing they do or can do protects us from being victims. It is the armed citizen who stops or prevents crime.

Armed guards and teachers can and have prevented mass shootings at schools; armed citizens are the only ones who have successfully prevented mass public or church shootings. Armed and trained citizens save lives and stop crime, period, end of story. No anti gun law has ever been shown to decrease violent crime, only to take away the sole effective protection against violence ever shown to work. Prosecuting an inanimate object is insane, and not focusing on the criminal is in itself criminal.