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livius wrote:

"I think we’re relying way too much on guns here. I have no objection to more people being able to be armed, but that alone is not going to protect us.

"We have to have a “fight-back attitude” on a personal level. Somehow, we’ve lost that."

From my personal experience in various exchanges I've had on the VA Tech shootings, both online and off, this brand of cowardice is rampant among the general population. Combine that with their absolutely slavish ideology that somehow, despite it's horribly apparent failings, the great god Government will still save them, and you have a nation full of soft targets. To suggest otherwise is to immediately be attacked in the most rabid, virulent fashion one could imagine.

Most people under age thirty are nothing more than a helpless herd of sad, angry, brainwashed sheep. I hesitate to call them "Americans". Over three decades of easy living and PC, warm and fuzzy, "nothing's worth fighting for" happy-crap, both in the schools and the mass-media, has yielded and expected result.

I'm sure their masters are very proud.

Just my view from the saddle,

Joe,
See Post #3 here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1820459/posts
for the poster girl for precisely what you describe.

We ARE populated by millions of mindless myrmidons who are incapable of independent thought or action. NOLA was a textbook case.

America — the IDEA — is about over.

How sad that all those folks who died defending it for over 200 years died in vain.

"We have to have a “fight-back attitude” on a personal level. Somehow, we’ve lost that."

There's a "no sh*t" type comment for you...

We've lost that "edge" that allows a society to survive attacks from barbarians. We've become "too civilized", too willing to turn the other cheek.

It almost made me vomit to see one of Cho's victims Father sobbing on TV saying how he forgives Cho, how his daughter would have forgiven him, how we just need "healing"... Such a broken mindset. Such a desolate soul. FIGHT against evil. Rail against it. HATE it. It's okay for the GOOD guys to FIGHT back. It's MANDATORY in most cases. Being angry about things has its proper place. Denying it and stifling it is unhealthy.

And yeah... sometimes that means standing up to bad people and stopping them with violence. Not just common street trash, not just homicidal dirt bags like Cho, but even those bad actors in government.

Unless we get this figured out, the United States will go the way of Rome...

"Most people under age thirty are nothing more than a helpless herd of sad, angry, brainwashed sheep. I hesitate to call them "Americans". Over three decades of easy living and PC, warm and fuzzy, "nothing's worth fighting for" happy-crap, both in the schools and the mass-media, has yielded and expected result."

Roger that, Joe!!

Bravo Zulu!!

You hang around the wrong people under age 30.

Exactly right. I just watched the Omnimax Hurricane on the Bayou movie today about the Katrina storm. It was good, but so alarming that so many people stayed when warned that a category 5 hurricane was bearing down on them. What could they be thinking other than, “Uncle Sam will rescue ME!” (The narrator -liberal Meryl Streep- even said several times that the emergency response was inadequate...how do you get an immediate response to an emergency when people are risking their lives to go back into an area that was supposed to be evacuated in the first place!).

Anyway, this just shows the complacency of the average American. Don’t worry, pal, the government will take care of everybody. No need to take care of yourself or those around you.