| ??? 09/30/07 21:30 Read: times |
#145153 - Relativity Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Hi Jan and Steve,
Hummm, are you suggesting that the pupils would be better off wearing guns to the school? Well, that's a rather naive way of stating it, but yes. The students would have been better off if people had defended themselves. But since only one man in Beslan had both the ability and courage to do so, ..., well, you know the rest. Beslan is in the wilds of the Caucausus its nowhere near Slovakia ! How close or far two points are depends not only on the distance between them, but the distance between them and the observer as well. The stars of Cassiopeia are a lot farther apart than Slovakia and Beslan, but not from here. In any case, your argument only obfuscates, without refuting, my point. Whether in Beslan or Slovakia or Colombine, Colorado, or a university in Virginia, or on a subway train in New York City, or in a Luby's Restaurant in Lubbock, Texas, more people are killed when the public does not shoot back. It's all about relativity. And if one man, or a group of men, decide they're going to kill people, relatively fewer victims will die the sooner the gunmen are dispatched. |
