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Re: The *militia* saved flight 93 from a worse fate...
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Fri, 21 Sep 2001 19:24:24 GMT
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Hello Larry,
> > ... however they did this without guns. So how does the firearms discussion
> > get into this article?
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> Not following you there. The author was making a point about who the militia
> was, a point that many (with their prattle about the militia being
> exclusively the National Guard) miss, or worse, deliberately distort.
Well, it seems I need to elaborate on this, then.
First, the article states:
> Ask yourself every time you hear a proposal for increased "security": Would
> have in any way have averted the disaster that actually happened? Will it
> avert a future suicide attack on the public by other new and different means?
This is the right question to ask, and it is EXACTLY why I am so critical
towards military action.
A few paragraphs further down, you can read in the article:
> Rather than provide for training and encouraging persons to be able to defend
> themselves ‹ and to exercise their training responsibly ‹ powerful lobbying
> groups have and will continue to advocate passivity and disarmament. The
> vociferous anti-self-defense, anti-gun crusaders of the past decades will not
> give up now.
Now, this really contradicts any of the claims previously made. Wearing guns
does NOT help against any of the types of terror we have seen so far, nor
can I imagine it will prevent terrorists from inventing new diabolic ways of
killing people. Ready availablility of arms, with no questions asked, MAY
make it easier for terrorists, but then, they have always and everywhere
known where to get arms.
Moreover, equalizing an anti-gun attitude with a passive anti-self-defense
one is at least questionable. The terms "vociferous" and "crusade", IMO,
apply a lot more to the pro-gun than to the anti-gun fraction, BTW.
So, yes, I do think there is a hidden agenda with this article. You could
also call this pandering, but I certainly don't want to kick off another
discussion about what this term means ;-)
Greetings
Horst
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