[The Citizen Soldier]

They’ll mess with the wrong “cracker” one of these days and wind up with their clubs shoved up their asses. And who knows...it might start an “epidemic” of folks who’ve had enough of their bullsh*t and take it to them.

Very much agree. There was a recent incident on a bus where some 60 year-old Viet Nam vet was being hassled by some young punk. Before it was over, the young punk took a real ass-kicking while his friends watched ...from a safe distance.

There is a very good chapter on this phenomenon in Malcolm Gladwell's, "The Tipping Point." In it, he talks about how the New York subways became safer for everyone on the basis of one man, Bernhard Goetz (the "Subway Vigilante"), standing up to the thuggery.

[NFHale]

“I won’t be wronged, I won’t be insulted, I won’t be laid a hand on. I don’t do these things to other people, I require the same from them.” (John Wayne, The Shootist)

Pretty much my view of life.

“If they mean to have a war...” You know the rest.