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[unixronin]

There is a lesson to be learned from Virginia Tech and, by comparison, from the Appalachian Law School.

There is a lesson to be learned from United Airlines Flight 93 on September 11, 2001.

I could find other examples.  The Warsaw ghetto, for example.  But the point would be the same.  They all teach the same lesson.

That lesson is quite simple, and can be stated in two words:

FIGHT BACK.

If you refuse to fight back, you are betting your future, your life, and everything else you have to lose, on the goodwill of your attacker.  Where is the possible logic in trusting to the goodwill of someone who has just viciously attacked you without provocation?

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[ithildae.livejournal.com]

"If you turn yourselves into sheep, the wolves will eat you." -- B. Franklin

We are not seeing new impulses to complacency.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Indeed we aren't. But from time to time, people need to be reminded, or they forget and get swayed by the craven and cowardly.

[ithildae.livejournal.com]

Isn't that the price of Liberty?

Freedom is hard. It requires taking responsibility and staying informed. It requires taking action. When we forget that, we lose our freedoms.

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Abso-fraggin'-lutely.