I was watching the US vs. Lennon recently and was appalled by a quote from G. Gordon Liddy. In reference to the Kent State shooting in the spring of 1970. Paraphrasing he said something along the lines of
The National Guard were 19 year old kids in a volatile situation. What did you expect. Wow, I kind of expected trained military personnel to act in a disciplined manner using no more force than necessary and to only use deadly force when the situation required such an extreme response. So if this is the level of expectation from our trained military, what would be the level of expectation from aa armed Trained? civilian? Ian Skinner wrote: > Criminals should know that if they point a gun at someone, there'll be > 20 guns points back at them. > > One comment I would like to make concerning this concept. How many > times in a given persons life are they likely to face an armed criminal. > Contrast this with how many times in a persons life where they may be > faced with an emotionally charged situation where having instant access > to a highly proficient killing device would be a very BAD idea. > > If you reply that 'training' would take care of this, how would that > training be applied? It sure as hell better be a lot more effective > then the training that allows almost anybody to be put in control of > multi-thousand pound killing machines on the roads. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232847 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
