Jack Stein wrote:
Stuart wrote:
In article ,
Morris Dovey wrote:

It struck me some time ago that anyone with a healthy family and a
full belly was unlikely to pick up a gun or strap on a suicide vest.

Unless motivated by religious extremism -|

Seems the most popular reason to pick up a gun is socialism. Think of
the National Socialist Party of Germany (Nazi's) or Stalin, or Mao. The
second most popular reason to pick up a gun is to fight the socialists
trying to kill everyone. I was born just after WWII, but no one in my
circle of family or friends that picked up a weapon to fight Hitlers
socialist party were very hungry. Come to think of it, no one I know
that are picking up guns to fight in Iraq or Afghanistan are very hungry
either.

I won't argue with your observations of those within your family circle,
but will encourage you to consider the conditions that led to the those
three political forces acquiring their political power.

Come to think of it some more, and in the US during the depression, when
people were a bit hungry, violent crime was nothing like it is today,
after the War on Poverty put a chicken in every pot....

An interesting observation. It might be even more interesting to
discover the social conditions that have produced today's level of
violence. It's also been interesting to contemplate the underpinnings of
the current level of ammunition sales - to the point that some
manufacturers have gone to round-the-clock production and still can't
meet demand. It leads one to wonder if the problem is with the chicken
or the pot - or something else.

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Morris Dovey
DeSoto Solar
DeSoto, Iowa USA
http://www.iedu.com/DeSoto/