At 01:27 PM 12/09/2001 -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/2048256
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>"Perhaps it is too much to hope that we will respond to this shattering
>tragedy as well as the Israelis, who have a long history of preventing
>similar atrocities by encouraging their civilians to carry concealed
>weapons and to shoot back at criminals and terrorists. But it is in
>that policy of a distributed response to a distributed threat, with
>every single citizen taking personal responsibility for the defense of
>life and freedom, that our best hope for preventing recurrences of
>today's mass murders almost certainly lies."
Yeah, and we know how peaceful it is in and around Israel as a result. :-/
Violence feeds the violence cycle.
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