sci.physics

Uncle Al wrote:

> Only honest citizens can be disarmed. The end to impromptu crime -
> mugging, rape, break-ins, theft, school shootings - is an armed
> citizenry. When everybody can be concealed carry, such crime is no
> longer viable - it's suicide. An armed society is a polite society.
> Only an unarmed society screams "havoc!"
>
> Support evolution - shoot back. The imposed alternative begs an armed
> response,

Saved. In doing so I realized that nearly half of my saved text quotes are
Uncle Al's work. :-)

I've thought this about a mostly armed citizenry for a long time. It's all or
nothing and nothing, as you point out, can't happen.

Somewhere I read that in the well armed "wild west" the per-capita homicide rate
was considerably less than it is now. Maybe bullshit but provocative anyway. I
do know from the writings of conversation from that time, fact or fiction, that
you are absolutely right about polite. People today are way too secure in
other's ham-strung impotence. Hell, you can't even sock anyone defensively any
more other than in narrowly defined circumstances. Pre-emptive socking is very
often the best, even the only, defense.


Bob
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"Things should be described as simply as possible, but no simpler."

A. Einstein