02-08-2020, 01:17 PM
It is a reasonable assumption that if America were invaded, what Yamamoto feared would be true: there would be a gun behind every tree. The muskets that could take down a deer as dinner could take down an intruder -- or an invader.
Such was the rationale of the Second Amendment. Wars are waged more effectively with artillery (which has killed more people than infantry fire and aerial bombs together in wars of the last century). Soviet tanks could move from the most advanced positions of the Nazis over time after Katusha rockets ravaged German positions... all the way to Vienna, Prague, and Berlin.
As crime prevention: dogs may not come up with the size, but they can come up with the behavior:
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but should they come up with the size as multiple dogs, they are about as deadly. Beware, rapists and burglars: a well-behaved pet can become a fearsome attacker with little warning. An eighty-pound cat (and dogs can be very cat-like) is too dangerous. People do not promote cat-like behavior in dogs, but dogs can be provoked.
People wisely behave themselves in the presence of dogs.
Such was the rationale of the Second Amendment. Wars are waged more effectively with artillery (which has killed more people than infantry fire and aerial bombs together in wars of the last century). Soviet tanks could move from the most advanced positions of the Nazis over time after Katusha rockets ravaged German positions... all the way to Vienna, Prague, and Berlin.
As crime prevention: dogs may not come up with the size, but they can come up with the behavior:
but should they come up with the size as multiple dogs, they are about as deadly. Beware, rapists and burglars: a well-behaved pet can become a fearsome attacker with little warning. An eighty-pound cat (and dogs can be very cat-like) is too dangerous. People do not promote cat-like behavior in dogs, but dogs can be provoked.
People wisely behave themselves in the presence of dogs.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.