Tag: If you “See something

February 19,2018

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld made some concrete suggestions as to stemming the tide of school shootings.

Greg Gutfeld Show (@GregGutfeldShow) February 18, 2018

His points include:
Harden soft targets with security and training. Gutfeld notes that this is already being done by a wide swatch of business, entertainment, and political figures, plus many companies and organizations.
If you see something, say something, should be followed with do something. “The punk had a zillion red flags. The FBI were tipped off and blew it.” Gutfeld suggests a new motto: See something, say something, do something. Gutfeld explains that part of the problem is that neither of the two main sides in the gun debate trusts the other. “Common-sense gun control” is mostly a euphemism for taking away or harshly limiting gun rights, he suggests, while also implying that gun-rights maximalists are willing to let deranged “creeps” to get weapons as the cost of maintaining their own freedoms. “We need a database” to keep people such as Florida school shooter Nikolaus Cruz from getting guns, says Gutfeld. But as important, he says we need to “tag” people such as Cruz the minute they start acting off. Violation of the database would result in a felony conviction.
Address mental illness seriously. “Bring back psychiatric hospitals,” says Gutfeld, who notes that of course they still exist but that they “house less than one-tenth of the people they did back in the ’50s.”
Re-examine the media’s role. “If you look at [mass-shooting] killers, you’ll find an interest in those who came before them.” Gutfeld argues that the media should not report the names of mass shooters or show their pictures as a way of tamping down such incidents. “We advertise infamy,” which he says has an impact.