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Former INTERPOL Chief on Terrorism: Make Secure Perimeters or Allow Civilians To Carry Guns
cnsnews.com ^ | 7/29/2016 | Joe Setyon

Posted on 08/01/2016 9:15:59 AM PDT by rktman

As INTERPOL general secretary, Ronald Noble said in 2013 that the ways to battle terrorism in “soft target” areas, such as shopping malls or movie theaters, is to erect secure safety perimeters or allow the citizens to carry their own guns, an “armed citizenry.”

In an October 21, 2013 with ABC News [1], Noble said that mass terror attacks make “police around the world question their views on gun control. It makes citizens question their views on gun control.”

“You have to ask yourself, 'Is an armed citizenry more necessary now than it was in the past with an evolving threat of terrorism?’” he said. (Noble, an American, served as the general secretary of INTERPOL – International Criminal Police Organization -- from 2000 to 2014.)

Noble’s comments came in response to a terrorist attack [2] in September of that year in Nairobi, Kenya. Members of the al-Shabab terror group opened fire at the Westgate mall, leaving at least 67 people dead.

According to Noble, there are only two ways to protect open societies from terror attacks like this one.

"One is to say we want an armed citizenry.”

“Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you're going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Philosophy; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: banglist; carryguns; defenders; interpol; rkba; rop
HUH? He must have meant citizens should carry "GUM". Just offer up a piece of juicy fruit to the would be terrorist and it'll calm them right down. Or maybe a snickers. I works for Marsha Brady. Is there a show of hands for anyone that seriously thinks this will ever happen in the EU? Didn't think so. Guess this guy will be getting called to the head masters office post haste for some uh, re-education. Yeah, that's it.
1 posted on 08/01/2016 9:15:59 AM PDT by rktman
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Why is this an either-or choice?


2 posted on 08/01/2016 9:18:45 AM PDT by CatOwner
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Special Thanks to Pookie18 – Today’s Toons
3 posted on 08/01/2016 9:19:34 AM PDT by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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Yeah. Gum or Snickers. I’ll take the Snickers. :)


4 posted on 08/01/2016 9:20:03 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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"One is to say we want an armed citizenry.”

Yes.

“Another is to say the enclaves are so secure that in order to get into the soft target you're going to have to pass through extraordinary security.”

Yes again. This is what you call, "borders".

5 posted on 08/01/2016 9:20:44 AM PDT by marron
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INTERPOL??!?!?!? Hmmm, wasn’t Reinhardt Heydrich once head of INTERPOL?


6 posted on 08/01/2016 9:22:21 AM PDT by dfwgator
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If you are going to be armed, go Swiss style!


7 posted on 08/01/2016 9:27:48 AM PDT by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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It's interesting that liberals decried Ronald Reagan for having a "wild west" mentality. For them, the "wild west" was a time when everyone was packing a six shooter.

Now, due to the inability and unwillingness of liberals to protect our culture, we may have to once again take up arms in the daily defense of ourselves and our families.

8 posted on 08/01/2016 9:37:13 AM PDT by the_Watchman
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we may have to once again take up arms

I never stopped.

9 posted on 08/01/2016 9:48:44 AM PDT by LouAvul (Freedom without responsibility is anarchy.)
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Yeah. Gum or Snickers. I’ll take the Snickers. :)

I can't find it now, but out there in Internet land is a photo captioned "Liberals' idea of gun control" and showed a Snickers bar snugly seated in a holster on someone's belt.

10 posted on 08/01/2016 10:04:41 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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No Interpol didn’t exist till after the war.


11 posted on 08/03/2016 3:04:17 PM PDT by Nebr FAL owner
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