Antidote offered to Muslim carnage: More guns
'If you're a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens'
Published: 1 day ago
Bob Unruh

Just as the latest Muslim terror attack in the United States – Wednesday’s assault on county employees in California that left 14 dead and more than a dozen wounded – was developing, there were calls for more guns, an armed citizenry and vigilance.

That’s in contrast to the Obama administration’s multiple calls for fewer guns and more gun control.

While the San Bernardino shooters still were at large, President Obama was summoning support for “common sense gun safety laws” and urging a law that would prevent some individuals from purchasing firearms.

“We don’t yet know what the motives of the shooters are but what we do know is that there are steps we can take to make Americans safer,” he said in an interview with CBS. “We should never think that this is just something that just happens in the ordinary course of events because it doesn’t happen with the same frequency in other countries.”

In Detroit, just before the California shooting, Police Chief James Craig had another view.

“If you’re a terrorist, or a carjacker, you want unarmed citizens,” Craig said in an interview with CBS Detroit.

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Another call for more guns came, just before the attack, came from Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona.

He said he cannot guarantee the Arizona public's safety and said citizens need to take matters into their own hands.

"I'm just talking about the areas where you have large crowds and someone pulls out the gun and starts shooting. Maybe somebody with a concealed weapon takes the guy down," Arpaio said.

There are some 250,000 Arizona residents who carry concealed-weapons permits.

Arpaio's comments to KPHO were prompted by terror attacks in Paris, Beirut and Mali.

The station reported Arpaio isn't the first politician to call for more guns.

"Three years ago, Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert proposed arming more citizens after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Connecticut where 20 school children and six adult staff members were killed," the report said.

"At the time, Gohmert said: 'I wish to God she had had an M-4 in her office,' referring to the school’s principal," the report said.

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From upstate NY:

Upstate New York sheriff urges licensed gun owners to carry firearm with them
Published December 04, 2015

ALBANY, N.Y. – An upstate New York sheriff is urging residents of his county who are licensed gun owners to arm themselves when they leave home, citing recent mass shootings in the United States and Paris.

"I urge you to responsibly take advantage of your legal right to carry a firearm," Ulster County Sheriff Paul Van Blarcum, a Democrat, wrote on the department's Facebook page less than 24 hours after 14 people were shot dead in San Bernardino, California.

The post quickly drew hundreds of comments, for and against it.

"I'm not trying to drum up a militia of any sort," Van Blarcum told The Associated Press on Thursday. "It's just a reminder that if you want to, you have a right to carry it. It might come in handy. It's better to have it than not have it. We're partners with the public in crime prevention."

The largely rural county in the Catskill Mountains about two hours north of New York City has 10,000 licensed handgun owners, Van Blarcum said.

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