[Travis McGee]

The formatting in the FR version makes it a bit hard to read, what with the crazy quote mark problem. It might be easier to read at the WRSA or GoV links.

Also, I'm doing a three-day Kindle free run for my Enemies trilogy starting tonight at midnight west-coast time. If the essay draws any attention, I hope that lots of new readers will download my novels gratis. My novels are also warnings.

[rktman]

Thanks. I kinda forgot a few things. The scotsman stated that there are approx 60 million privately owned firearms in europe the other day. I didn’t confirm that in any manner but he’s usually correct on these issues. The problem is ease of access and access to ammunition if it comes down to it. Plus, the will to act of course. Not sure if those that are willing to act have access to the weapons. We know the terrorist will have access to weapons and ammo anytime they want. Unless of course somebody post a “No GUNS Allowed” sign. And close the european gun show loophole. :)

[sport]

An excellent essay. I am going to print it out and distribute to others.

[Noumenon]

I hate it when you’re right, sir. Outstanding essay. It’s a connect-the-dots historical perspective that few understand.

The history of the last 200 years or so has been one in which millions have been overtaken by events that they were either too uneducated to see or flat out refused to see. It is equally clear that we will not be able to vote, talk or debate our way out of these events.

That we have that perspective may be our only advantage.

People used to laugh at us for pointing these things out. That, for example, both the Islamist and the global socialist factions are both led by murderous, will-to-power driven psychopaths. With all that implies.

Few of them are laughing now.

[cynwoody]

The formatting in the FR version makes it a bit hard to read, what with the crazy quote mark problem.

Click here for a solution to that problem. It's a user script that cleans up the mess after the page has downloaded.

Also, here for another script that makes writing posts easier. It now includes code that changes any funny Unicode you might be posting into HTML entities so that the server will not mangle it.