[Riposte1]

Skeet;
It is perfectly OK to have a different pespective. You can articulate your position well and that is what counts. Folks have different life experiences.

I am relatively old and more than a little bit tired of sheep. One of the better moments I have had was when 60 Minutes inteviewed my friend Clint Smith on sniping and were hem hawing around the issue when Clint directly said "you know, some people just need to be shot."

No sane, righteous person wants to shoot other people for some thrill or to feel "big". In fact only a psychopath wants to harm folks at all. But if we are to deal with violence which comes our way we have to face the fact that we either have to meet it effectively (and to do that we have to prepare well before hand) or suffer the consequences.

I would highly commend to every person who goes out into the public to read Jeff Snyder's "A Nation of Cowards" essay.

I always liked Jeff Coopers retort to someone who suggest to him "violence begets violence". He said "It is my fervent hope this is true...if someone visits violence on me he will get more than he can stand in return."

I appoligize for my intensity, but this is something I feel intensely. The answer to predatory criminal behavior is not to run, hide or cower...it is to stop it right there on the spot.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Best regards,
Riposte

"The will to win is nothing without the will to Prepare."