Re: Interesting Article Thread v.2
Posted: Wed Jan 23, 2013 1:16 am
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It's as if we are closer to early humans than we are apes!
Dealing with them by destroying property and killing people is terrorism, not justice. Nor will it cause them to cease.MrTwosheds wrote:Either way they are merely trivial human scale crimes, dealt with by human justice. The crimes I speak of may ultimately become those of the highest order, justice is not a viable option, the cessation of the crimes is all I seek. Is it really too much to expect a lumber industry to actually grow their own trees? I don't think it is. I think it is essential for the long term survival of that civilisation.
Absolutely, it is just fools showing themselves to have as little self control or understanding as those they oppose. Humans love resorting to violence, they just need to justify it to themselves, that it almost never advances the cause they think they follow does not actually matter to them. The prospect of violence simply offers a false hope of some sort of sense of victory that their narrow minded cause's will otherwise never deliver.Dealing with them by destroying property and killing people is terrorism, not justice. Nor will it cause them to cease.
It may also be a recognition that a heavily over armed population will inevitably at some point become a serious threat to its own stability.Part of me wonders if the focus of media on 'gun control' and local terrorism is part of a plan to try and manipulate people into removing their own 2nd amendment rights, which was probably put into place to give people an opportunity to overthrow a tyrannical federal government (should it ever need to come to that).
Only in the presence of an outside oppressive force.MrTwosheds wrote:It may also be a recognition that a heavily over armed population will inevitably at some point become a serious threat to its own stability.
An interesting article from USMC Captain Katie Petronio on the subject.Iron_Maiden wrote:A good decision?:
Civil conflict can afflict any nation, it really takes very little provocation to start trouble and it is very hard to stop again once it gets going.Only in the presence of an outside oppressive force.
I see an argument for women to choose not to join, not an argument for barring women from joining.APCs r Evil wrote:An interesting article from USMC Captain Katie Petronio on the subject.Iron_Maiden wrote:A good decision?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... xnhgkYa9dQAHadley wrote:Americans being armed is not the problem. Stupid Americans being armed is the problem.
Now I wonder how one should go about trying to spot the difference.AHadley wrote:Americans being armed is not the problem. Stupid Americans being armed is the problem.