Re: Off topic Crazy trespass stuff

 u:


 not really true, Billy. the Revolution was won more by stealth &
courage than by guns. the Revolutionary Army of the new world
actually had more farm implements than guns & was among the first to
practice guerrilla warfare. the British had trouble adapting to such
tactics as firing from behind rock walls & trees, rather than
standing & firing in ranks.
 it's really not the power of the weapon (since i doubt the
government is stupid enough to use nuclear weapons on the
disenfranchised), but the power of conviction.

 now, if we could get the masses off their bread & circuses to see
what they can do, we'd get somewhere. with or without the
"government"
lee

 Rick wrote:

Except that ready access to a gun makes it _so_ much easier for nutters to
do something leathal when they snap.  The alternative is a lot of yelling
and frothing at the mouth and sometimes swinging a kitchen knife or shovel.
Sure you can kill somebody with a kitchen knife but its so much easier
easier with a gun.



Youth has always thumbed its nose a authority, shown disrespect and raised
the ire of their elders: this is nothing new.  Sure the mental health of the
perpetrator and the flaws of society at large bear most of the blame for the
cause but if it wasn't for the convenient gun his chance of doing real harm
would have been so much less.  This argument that because there are other
causes, that having a gun is not the primary cause, is very weak once you
look at the whole process not just the causes.


A dark prediction and a darker solution.

David

 David Hare-Scott wrote:

Read about the Battle of Athens (1946).  It was not what (or where) you
might expect.

http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1985/2/1985_2_72.shtml

Bob

 

u:


 if you think *anyone* can change 8 years of regression is 6 months,
you must have thought you elected Superman. you are being unfair &
totally unrealistic.
 also, a President can *suggest* laws and policy, but Congress has to
write it & pass it. Pelosi is obfusicating & dithering. she's a DINO,
a Bush flunkie in a Democrat wrapper. i believe she's from your
state, so you really should work at getting someone with a brain into
her office, instead of blaming the president for the branch of
government he doesn't control.
lee

 

In article


<http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_History/Essays/Patterns_of_
Social_and_Political_Interaction>

 I'm getting a head ache.   A good sign I guess.

Bill

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