I'm not advocating anything except not being helpless. I do suspect a government that doesn't trust its citizens. And I do wish some liberals would start standing up once in awhile. I believe to be evil and violence prone. I'll challenge you a bit more. Ever since Vietnam I've declared myself anti war, pacifist and non violent. And I am but I also a family man and feel I have a duty to defend my wife and daughter and, for that matter, any hapless fellow man threatened with violence. In this my own philosophy doesn't apply. After I got out of the service and started college I tried to be a hippy, but soon realized that, as much as I might want it to be, the hippy world vision was fantasy. Dream what you will but you also have to deal with reality.
Which arose way past the medieval period and from a country, England that had a long period of stability and education and was a fair distance away.
You planning on getting into an arms race with your own government? I'm pretty sure I know who'd win, or more likely, who'd lose.
I'm not advocating anything except not being helpless. I do suspect a government that doesn't trust its citizens. And I do wish some liberals would start standing up once in awhile. I believe to be evil and violence prone. I'll challenge you a bit more. Ever since Vietnam I've declared myself anti war, pacifist and non violent. And I am but I also a family man and feel I have a duty to defend my wife and daughter and, for that matter, any hapless fellow man threatened with violence. In this my own philosophy doesn't apply. After I got out of the service and started college I tried to be a hippy, but soon realized that, as much as I might want it to be, the hippy world vision was fantasy. Dream what you will but you also have to deal with reality.