From: Michael S. Lorrey (retroman@together.net)
Date: Mon Dec 21 1998 - 11:10:37 MST
Max M wrote:
> From: Terry Donaghe <tdonaghe@yahoo.com>
>
> >"I do not advocate the initiation of force to promote social or
> >political goals."
>
> >Comment?
>
> It sounds about as practical as comunism!
>
> What about preemptive strikes? I would hate to wait until I got hit by a
> mugger to react.
As the evidence shows, carrying concealed weapons has a significant deterrent
effect on the population as a whole, while openly carrying weapons deters crime
from the individual carrying. You don't need to initiate force to have an
effect.
> Or how about hostile countries running the arms race with
> ill intent? Do we wait until the bombs are dropping?
As 50 years experience showed, Mutual Assured Destruction did a fine job of out
blinking the potential agressors.
> I can think of so many exceptions to this rule that it is hard to take
> seriously. It is a good ideal though, and one that I think many of us live by
> whenever we can.
Please come up with some more concrete examples of why this would not work. The
two you cited are obviously inadequate.
Mike Lorrey
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