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“A snowball headed for hell”
Letter to the editor;
The nation is in trouble. Big trouble. (Pick a nation and a trouble: We’re in it.)
A popular song likens this to a snowball rolling down toward the nether regions.
PLAN A: Ignore it. It’ll go away. Or maybe someone else will take care of things.
PLAN B: Trust our Beloved Leaders to fix it. (But they caused at lease part of it.)
PLAN C: Urge the government to hand out lots and lots of money that it doesn’t have, and to decree that it will do more of the same if the trouble continues.
PLAN D: Demand the government get rid of the Jews/ Blacks/ Mexicans/ drug-dealers/ homosexuals/ Socialists. (All of these have been tried at other times and other places and none of them fixed a thing.)
PLAN E: Stage a bloody revolution and wreck the nation’s foundations and build a new one on the basis of whoever kills the most people. (This always gives WORSE results.)
PLAN F: Sit crosslegged and say “Ooooom. Ooooom.” until your mind is calm like water. (This doesn’t fix anything -- but then you don’t care about it anymore.)
PLAN G: Phone and write politicians to tell them a better way to do things.
PLAN H: Demand the government hold a nationwide day of prayer and fasting. (Good. Good. But you cannot make ‘em pray, and they certainly aren’t going to fast on command.)
PLAN I: Repent. Not try to make your neighbors repent. Just repent. Not try to have the government proclaim repentance. Just repent. Seeing that you cannot make anybody else repent, just repent.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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Violence and counter-violence
On violence
Letter to the editor;
“Violence does not solve everything.” (Authentic American proverb)
“Have we been told that ‘violence does not solve everything’ so often that we have come to believe that violence does not solve anything?” (The late Col. Jeff Cooper)
Generally, when no violence is offered, it is not a good thing to commit violence.
Generally, one must not commit violence. That is, if some “really bad dude” is saying bad words and moving in a manner suggestive of evil intentions, the best thing to do is to watch and wait.
However, if the bad guy goes from mere rhetoric to hurting people, it might be a good idea to hit him with a fist or a ball-bat or something. If he is killing people or making a really convincing show that he will kill someone in a second or two, it may be time “to initiate deadly force” – or maybe even shoot him.
The Arizona Legislature made it possible for responsible residents with clean records to carry concealed weapons: You and your predecessors knew violence.
Violence happens fairly often at schools. Mostly it is stopped by a school employee stepping in and saying words to the students involved.
But there is a kind of school violence that is beyond stopping with words and gestures. There is the dreaded “school-shooter,” who, driven by inner demons, comes prepared to kill as many children as possible. It takes the threat of deadly force, or perhaps even deadly force itself to stop such a disturbed man.
The fastest police force may be able to get there in a minute. (How many children will a school-shooter kill in a minute?) But every school can have a great number of responsible adults with guns in their hands IN ONE SECOND.
I recommend that the Arizona Legislature act to encourage Arizona schools to welcome those who have earned the Concealed Weapons Permit to carry their weapons on the school grounds – especially school employees.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
Letter to the editor;
“Violence does not solve everything.” (Authentic American proverb)
“Have we been told that ‘violence does not solve everything’ so often that we have come to believe that violence does not solve anything?” (The late Col. Jeff Cooper)
Generally, when no violence is offered, it is not a good thing to commit violence.
Generally, one must not commit violence. That is, if some “really bad dude” is saying bad words and moving in a manner suggestive of evil intentions, the best thing to do is to watch and wait.
However, if the bad guy goes from mere rhetoric to hurting people, it might be a good idea to hit him with a fist or a ball-bat or something. If he is killing people or making a really convincing show that he will kill someone in a second or two, it may be time “to initiate deadly force” – or maybe even shoot him.
The Arizona Legislature made it possible for responsible residents with clean records to carry concealed weapons: You and your predecessors knew violence.
Violence happens fairly often at schools. Mostly it is stopped by a school employee stepping in and saying words to the students involved.
But there is a kind of school violence that is beyond stopping with words and gestures. There is the dreaded “school-shooter,” who, driven by inner demons, comes prepared to kill as many children as possible. It takes the threat of deadly force, or perhaps even deadly force itself to stop such a disturbed man.
The fastest police force may be able to get there in a minute. (How many children will a school-shooter kill in a minute?) But every school can have a great number of responsible adults with guns in their hands IN ONE SECOND.
I recommend that the Arizona Legislature act to encourage Arizona schools to welcome those who have earned the Concealed Weapons Permit to carry their weapons on the school grounds – especially school employees.
Glenn Jacobs
Eagar, Arizona
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