Valeriy Pekar
A terrorist attack, like any major shock, triggers the office of simple solutions that exists in every head – Kahneman received the Nobel Prize for this.
Main points
- The Office of Simple Decisions generates two decisions: allow or prohibit the carrying of weapons to prevent terrorist attacks.
- There is no simple answer to the question of how to prevent terrorist attacks, as the existing law enforcement system is complex and time-consuming.
Valeriy Pekar
A terrorist attack, like any major shock, triggers the office of simple solutions that exists in every head – Kahneman received the Nobel Prize for this.
About the office of simple solutions
The Office of Simple Solutions generates two simple solutions. Valeriy Pekar writes about this.
To the topic The attacker's mental state is unstable, it is unknown how he obtained a permit for a weapon, – Klymenko
Here are these solutions:
1. Allow everyone to carry weapons as much as possible so that people can protect themselves and others.
2. Ban everyone from carrying weapons as much as possible to prevent such terrorist attacks.
The Office of Simple Solutions cannot answer the three most important questions.
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Who would go to the nearby supermarket with a gun to buy bread?
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What to do with established judicial practice when the person who shot a terrorist will go to prison with a 100% probability?
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How to prevent terrorist attacks, rather than react to them?
The first question is more or less clear: permission to carry a short-barreled gun will lead to a slight increase in the number of armed citizens (because obtaining permits, money, laziness, training, and oh well, why me…), but it will be the necessary critical mass that can have a very positive impact on the situation.
There are more problems with the second question, because the entire system needs to be changed. Changing the law will not achieve anything, changing the practice of law enforcement is difficult and time-consuming. Allowing people to own weapons without changing their ideas about the limits of necessary defense will not lead to anything.
The current system can be described as: “When they kill you, come.”
The third question is the most important. Because a terrorist often wants to be killed (psychologists have already written about this), so by the time a hero with a weapon gets to him, there will already be several corpses. I don't have a simple answer. “Countering Russian disinformation” is obviously not working. Anyone can be the target. Social injustice is only increasing. The war is not over yet.
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