Re: Not always joking, it seems

mike weber wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 19:48:40 GMT, "Mike Schilling"
> <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> "Seth" <sethb@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>> news:fpkj0i$ppo$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> In article <jL0uj.987$Mh2.343@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>> Mike Schilling <mscottschilling@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>>> David Friedman wrote:
>>>>> Sure. But they don't generally take the form described.
>>>> Kent State.  An armed, insufficiently trained group fires wildly 
>>>> into
>>>> a crowd.
>>> That's an argument for keeping guns away from the military, not 
>>> civilians.
>> Badly trained pseudo-military, that is.  Nowadays we punish such 
>> groups by sending them into war zones for indefinite periods. 
>>
> So they can simply kill each other when they panic and fire at
> improperly identified targets.

Might help if troops knew what the flags of their allied nations look 
like.

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Jette Goldie
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