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To: Thisiswhoweare
Mom and Dad are smarter than the superintendent?
29 posted on 10/20/2002 7:34:59 PM PDT by John W
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To: John W
Good one. Now, my point being they take their ideal from adults. How can we cower/hide in our homes and teach them they must resist and stand up against evildoers.
36 posted on 10/20/2002 7:38:26 PM PDT by Thisiswhoweare
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To: John W
Funny, somehow I missed that History textbook chapter about how school was cancelled for the entire length of WWII.

This is a dumb overreaction. Yeah, yeah, if we can save just one child, blah, blah, blah. The sniper has shot a dozen persons in an area with 9 million people. About the odds of being struck by lightning. If they haven't caught the sniper in a couple of weeks, how likely is it that they'll catch he/she/it in the next couple of days?

Bad precedent, and a bit of denial. Even if this is the work of a loner nut or two, sooner or later terrorists will pick up this sniper technique, since it is so effective in disrupting our lives, hurting the local economy, and tying up law enforcement. We are at war, get used to it. Cowering at home may be a very, very, very slightly safer option for the short-term, but you can't hide under the covers forever. And overreactions like shutting down the schools just make the sniper tactic more appealing to terrorists, and thus more likely.

I can respect the parental instinct to protect children. But the response must be weighed the reality and dynamics of the situation. Like it or not, we are experiencing a paradigm shift, to a war that will likely include the homefront. Prudence and caution make sense, but in adjusting how we get basic functions and duties done, not by quitting and withdrawing.


53 posted on 10/20/2002 7:48:05 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat
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