On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 04:08:39 GMT, "tim gueguen" wrote:


"Evan Brennan" wrote in message
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"tim gueguen" wrote in message
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"Evan Brennan" wrote in message
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"Keith Willshaw" wrote in message
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Most criminals know that shooting cops is a really BAD idea.

Yet around 150 are killed and 230 injured in the US every year and
US
cops
are armed while British police typically are not.

I prefer things our way.


Your way didn't work too well in Northern Ireland.

You mean that place they sent the Army into.


Good point. The US Army certainly does not patrol my neighborhood,
city or state. No need to.

Because no part of the US has had a bunch of terrorist bombers running
around blowing things up for years. If say one of the militia groups had
engaged in a sustained and effect campaign of terror in Michigan you'd see
soldiers patrolling the street there as well. The US has been fortunate
that its terrorists have either been relatively limited in their actual
activities, or have proven ineffectual at anything beyond simple crime, like
the Order in the mid '80s. The US has never had a terrorist group as
operationally effective as the IRA or the Red Brigades.

tim gueguen 101867

And we never will. We live under the rule of law, and have an armed
citizenry that will not tolerate such madness.

Al Minyard