From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jun 30 13:54:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA03205 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:54:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from stratos.net ([207.86.135.43]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA03010; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 13:54:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from drifter@stratos.net) From: drifter@stratos.net Received: (from drifter@localhost) by stratos.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) id PAA03979; Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:53:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <19980630155352.A3937@stratos.net> Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 15:53:52 -0400 To: Jon Hamilton , "Jonathan M. Bresler" Cc: "Jason C. Wells" , fpawlak@execpc.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does it's true? References: <199806290005.RAA00896@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Jon Hamilton on Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 07:56:15PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jun 28, 1998 at 07:56:15PM -0500, Jon Hamilton wrote: > > > One angle not (apparently) being considered is that if the local population > is armed and unwilling to capitulate, the government would either have > to go find something else to do, or start killing people outright, which > certainly carries more of a political pricetag than, say, waltzing into > a neighborhood and arresting dozens of unarmed people. This "ups the > ante", so to speak, to keep the government (or any aggressor) at least > a little honest. > -- > Jon Hamilton > hamilton@pobox.com A variation of the above theme... Such arguments about defense against government don't work when the whole force of the government is bearing down on you. But... When it's just one crazed police officer, or FBI agent, or whatever. In otherwords, in a world where the government is more or less the way it is today, with just a few bad apples... An other example is if you are in a war-torn country that's subject to roving armies who are not riding into town in tanks. If four or five military men armed with standard issue fire arms decide they want to rape, pillage, and plunder, an armed civilian population *can* defend against that. -- drifter@stratos.nospam.net (remove nospam to send) "Ever notice that in every commercial about the Internet, advertising geniuses can't resist having a bunch of kids staring into a monitor, awe- struck, looking at a whale jumping out of the ocean? Or is it just me?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message