>From: Miriam English <miriam@werple.net.au>
>At 01:27 PM 12/09/2001 -0400, Michael Wiik wrote:
>>http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=01/09/11/2048256
>>
>>"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."
Everything is *not* a gun issue. Terrorists aren't roaming the streets
shooting people. If every single New Yorker was armed yesterday, that would
not have had any impact whatsoever on airliners slamming into skyscrapers.
>Yeah, and we know how peaceful it is in and around Israel as a result. :-/
>Violence feeds the violence cycle.
This is true, unless one party is so violent as to eliminate or completely
subjugate its adversary. Remember Nagasaki? After that...sweet peace in
the valley.
-Zero
"I'm a seeker too. But my dreams aren't like yours. I can't help thinking
that somewhere in the universe there has to be something better than man.
Has to be." -- George Taylor _Planet of the Apes_ (1968)
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