Thursday, March 24, 2016

Bombings and Shootings? The First Thing We Should do is to Teach

   From the Brussels bombings to a cat named Miss Kiss being shot with a blow dart in Springville, I wonder what we can do as a society to curb such violence.
   I pick up the USA Today newspaper which someone gave me, and see a headline. "Feds Nab 8,000 Violent Offenders." And, I wonder, how can we discourage violence, of all kinds.
  I will tell you, the first line of defense is to teach. If you are seeing a flood of violence, of terrorism, then one of the things you should be doing is teaching.
   Against it.
   Regardless what else you do. Regardless whether you take advice from Hillary Clinton or whoever on what needs to be done, the first thing you do, is you teach. You teach in the media, and you determine where possible violent offenders might be reached in communities, and you go reach them and you teach.
   I see Pope Francis has condemned the violence. That is part of teaching. But teaching must also be in a voice that reaches and connects with the possible offenders. Reason with them. Explain why they shouldn't do these things. Consider on the reasons they are committing the crimes, and give reply to the motives being seen.
   You may think you cannot reason with an ISIS supporter. You must try. Tell them why not to support ISIS.
   My, my, with all the experience we have with ad campaigns, all the successful advertisements we've learned how to make, now is the time for an advertisement blitz. Create clever, well-crafted, persuasive, hard-hitting, attractive ads that offer up the message not to sign on with ISIS, not to support it.
   Place the ads in the markets where potential terrorist are. Place them all across America to reach typical violent offenders.
   Teach the people. Teach them with a massive ad campaign that persuades some of them to turn from violence, to seek peach and to be peaceful.

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