Je ne suis pas Charlie Hebdo

[Drich]

False

I know of 12 examples of this being true.

We would rather not sink to their level.

indeed, but when a man with a gun chops you down to his level what other option does one have other than die?

Other effective responses can and do protect our journalists.

they did, but only in our 'safe zones' ISIS showed us that on their turf, journalists receive no quarter... Appearently now what we thought were safe zones are no longer safe.

Intelligence, police action, even NSA monitoring is intended to eliminate attacks like what happened at Charlie Hebdo.

your 1/2 right. In that goverment monitoring can only address coordinated attacks. Lone or paired wolf attacks apart from luck can not be stopped by the goverment. Even the French goverment says there is nothing can be done to stop everyone. They said it takes 2 dozen people to properly follow just one person. That is why they focus on large scale properly funded attacks. They get more bang for their euro.

There are ongoing arguments over the balance of liberty vs security, but the rarity of effective terrorist attacks in the west speaks to how well these approaches work as well as the incompetence of the attackers.

how many attacks do you think there has been in the west since 9/11?

There is another balance at play, commercial media wants to put as many eyes on themselves as possible so they can sell those eyes to advertisers. This plays into the hands of those whose chief impact comes from small scale, dramatic violent events. Without media attention the structural or economic impact of terrorist attacks is negligible. The most effective terrorist attack (9/11) of recent memory had a substantial impact;
$178 billion in physical and direct economic damages.
However it was the violent -let's go get them- reaction that really cost: $3,122 billion mostly for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/....html?_r=0
We would all like to see the terrorists get their comeuppance. They are despicable toads but an eye for an eye is a really antiquated strategy. We should publish more satirical cartoons and fewer breaking news reports on zealots with AKs.

Who said anything about going to get anyone? Are you so dense as to not understand the purpose of my purposed idea, yet commented on it anyway?

The stickers on the cars of gun owners is not a lets goto Islamabad and get them plan. It's about provoking a lone wolf out of the wood works and instead of attacking a jewish school, or grocery, or worse yet a whole office just full of 'you good people' (who think that your words and various expressive outlets can keep you safe from people who emote with 7.62x39mm rounds)

To maybe having a conversation/attacking with someone who can speak to them on their level.

This way when thier versions of bill marr, john daily and Richard Dawkins' of terrorism and radical Islam, finally start their campaign of anti western propaganda and satirical monologs, you guys can jump right in and save the backward gun tote'n folks from some serious intelectual burns and that awkwardness when someone really makes you look like a jackass.
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