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An article from The American Enterprise magazine talks about how it's our duty to learn to defend ourselves, and how we are a culture of cowardice. They make a lot of good points. By the time the police arrive, it's often all over - for good or bad. (You want an example of that? Try the recent case of two teenagers taking down a suicidal classmate with a gun in a situation that could have become a classic modern school tragedy - and instead ended with no reported injuries.)
One thing I'd argue would be this statement, however: "Our world has changed over the last year, and with it our moral responsibility to defend ourselves." Actually, it has hardly changed at all. Our perceptions, awareness, and understanding of particular parts of it, however, have changed immensely. We see now some of the responsibilities - and some of the dangers - that we were ignoring.
My opinion, anyway.
Both links snagged off of InstaPundit, which is still going to annoy me very soon with sheer volume of posts, no matter how interesting some of the resultant links are. By those lights, I should be irritating to many people as well, but I already knew that.
One thing I'd argue would be this statement, however: "Our world has changed over the last year, and with it our moral responsibility to defend ourselves." Actually, it has hardly changed at all. Our perceptions, awareness, and understanding of particular parts of it, however, have changed immensely. We see now some of the responsibilities - and some of the dangers - that we were ignoring.
My opinion, anyway.
Both links snagged off of InstaPundit, which is still going to annoy me very soon with sheer volume of posts, no matter how interesting some of the resultant links are. By those lights, I should be irritating to many people as well, but I already knew that.