The senseless attack on defenseless youth at a bar in Thousand Oaks, Calif., has shocked the nation, and everyone is grasping for solutions.

In Israel, where the threat to our youth is mainly from Islamic terrorists, rather than from random crime and sick individuals, we have commonsense solutions to the problem of shooting attacks in bars, schools, and other public places, and those principles can be applied in America. The basic idea is to keep the guns in the hands of the good, stable, well-trained people, and only of those who need them to protect themselves or others.