Maybe we don't agree with you, Phil. The principle is the same no matter the scale. Think out of the box. Joe
>>> Phil Lee <maryland_al...@yahoo.com> 1/9/2012 1:11 AM >>> I would have thought you would pick up my hint that this isn't the place for discussion of great power activities. Phil From: Joe Waldron <jwald...@halcyon.com> To: firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 8:59 PM Subject: Re: If the cop isn't RIGHT THERE, he's not going to intervene. Leave a vacuum, power or otherwise, and someone WILL fill it. Historically that someone is not our friend. Joe W On 1/8/2012 5:02 PM, Phil Lee wrote: A stretch to apply this lesson to firearms in the USA and really a stretch to those of us who think our government shouldn't be the world's cop. Phil From: Joseph E. Olson <jol...@gw.hamline.edu> ( mailto:jol...@gw.hamline.edu ) To: List Firearms Reg <firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu> ( mailto:firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu ) Cc: postHeller <posthel...@yahoogroups.com> ( mailto:posthel...@yahoogroups.com ) Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:40 PM Subject: If the cop isn't RIGHT THERE, he's not going to intervene. A useful analogy for civilian life. As the Mom in Oklahoma found out last week. >>> Joseph E. Olson 1/8/2012 1:34 PM >>> FROM TODAY'S PIONEER PRESS. So, here we go again. The Obama administration will reduce its long-service, professional land force to pay for ... [a] strategy show[ing] a degree of a-historicism that exceeds that of any post-World War II administration. So much for remembering "the lessons of the past." Here's what the lessons of the past 70 years really teach us: We cannot pick our enemies; our enemies will pick us. They will, as they have always done in the past, cede to us dominance in the air, on sea and in space because they do not have the ability to fight us there. Our enemies have observed us closely in Iraq and Afghanistan, and they have learned the lessons taught by Mao Zedong, Ho Chi Minh and Saddam Hussein: America's greatest vulnerability is dead Americans. So our future enemy will seek to fight us on the ground, where we have traditionally been poorly prepared. His objective will be to win by not losing, to kill as an end rather than as a means to an end. And we will enter the next war again tragically short of the precious resource that we have neglected for six administrations: our soldiers and Marines. http://www.twincities.com/opinion/ci_19691353 A lesson from my first-year college Western Civ. course: "You only control the ground you are standing on." Or in modern-speak: "Boots on the ground." No boots, no control. No "good guy" control, no civilization. QED. **************************************************************************************************************** Professor Joseph Olson, J.D., LL.M. o- 651-523-2142 Hamline University School of Law (MS-D2037) f- 651-523-2236 St. Paul, MN 55113-1235 c- 612-865-7956 jol...@gw.hamline.edu http://law.hamline.edu/constitutional_law/joseph_olson.html _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to firearmsregp...@lists.ucla.eduTo subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others. _______________________________________________ To post, send message to Firearmsregprof@lists.ucla.edu To subscribe, unsubscribe, change options, or get password, see http://lists.ucla.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/firearmsregprof Please note that messages sent to this large list cannot be viewed as private. Anyone can subscribe to the list and read messages that are posted; people can read the Web archives; and list members can (rightly or wrongly) forward the messages to others.
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