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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bbsam" data-source="post: 1067749" data-attributes="member: 22662">Again, I agree.  In fact, I alluded to it earlier and it is tiring when those on the right jump to the same old conlusion that this is all about gun control.  It isn't.  It's a different mindset toward guns altogether.  I mentioned that service in the IDF in Israel is mandatory.  Why not mandatory military service in the U.S.?  Even those who object to being armed can have a significant amount of training as to firearm safety and handling.  It even gets to the deeper root of the American psyche with an emphasis on service.  Put an entire generation through that kind of training so that self-defense does not begin and end at the barrel of a gun.  Give people that kind of confidence and knowledge and I wouldn't care if 98% of America carried concealed weapons.</blockquote>