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I was recently required to take Active Shooter training at my workplace.  This was a basic training video that I had to go through to prepare for the possibility of an active shooter event at my place of employment, discussing what to do in case the office was attacked by someone with a firearm intent on killing employees. My wife just a few weeks ago, had to go thru Active Shooter training and training on the dangers of IED's.  She is a school bus driver... My father worked for 53 years, some in not so good places.  As a veteran of the Korean War, never once did he carry a firearm as a civilian (at least in the time I knew him), nor did he take or was required to take by his workplace an Active Shooter Training.  Something is very wrong here. After watching years of public commentaries and discussion on the issue of Gun Control in the United States, I have heard many say that this is not the same world that my father grew up in, which for the most part I wou...

Not only has there been a war in this and about this area for years, but the "media war" doesn't make it much clearer...  It's really difficult to find clear unbiased information on this subject...It takes a lot of time, sometimes more time than I want to be reading. Most Americans don't even know who the Kurds are. I started researching them two years ago in detail after several years of watching the ISIS situation develop along with the Syrian Civil War.  I also watched several "on the ground" documentaries on the war with ISIS in which several factions of Kurdish fighters played a prominent role. I just hope by this latest of foreign policy decision doesn't create a whole new group of enemies for us... clearly, we have been careless with this region for quite some time...  we have lots of history of being careless in our foreign policy. There really is no black and white in this... its a lot of gray... and what a mess.  It's a mess we ...