tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post6599859713149620853..comments2024-02-16T09:00:32.845-06:00Comments on FromDC2Iowa: The Militarization of AmericaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-16204546679415631302015-07-13T21:51:03.383-05:002015-07-13T21:51:03.383-05:00Thank you for so eloquently writing about the cont...Thank you for so eloquently writing about the continuing militarization of our society and the unquestioning masses who revere and accept it not seeming to understand all the ramifications this is bringing to our country now and into the future.Julie Spencernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-6346556597855588562015-07-13T15:25:47.903-05:002015-07-13T15:25:47.903-05:00Long ago disappeared the craft-agrarian society th...Long ago disappeared the craft-agrarian society that consisted of law and order being a totally local matter in which, “the people should be directly enabled to secure those rights” such as self defense. We have long lived in mediated age in which face to face contacts are largely replaced by cell phone and even in small town America the neighbors are stranger and to oft one of them going forth into public bearing arms in self-defense turn themselves into the criminal uses of guns to render death and injury to others. Armaments races have a poor record of being means by which the peace is kept and that is so internationally, domestically in arms in private hands prompting law enforcement to ensure they can outgun the deadly doers, and instruments of violence being more prevalent everywhere. The record of slaughter within our land compared to the low incident in lands with better gun control ought to inform us the a colure accepting violence as the inevitable way of life suffers the inevitable. Insanity is preparing to violence and expecting something else in place of the violence that was expected that is a self-fullfiloing prophecy.Sam Osbornenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30130444.post-50054066385459707852015-07-09T08:32:33.769-05:002015-07-09T08:32:33.769-05:00Notice Regarding Advertising: This blog runs an op...<b>Notice Regarding Advertising:</b> This blog runs an open comments section. All comments related to the content of blog entries have (so far) remained posted, regardless of how critical. Although I would prefer that those posting comments identify themselves, anonymous comments are also accepted.<br /><br />The only limitation is that comments unrelated to the essay, such as advertising posing as comments, or with links to unrelated sites, will be removed. That is why one or more of the comments posted on this blog entry are no longer here.<br /><br />-- NickNickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08467682953748756539noreply@blogger.com