The Swiss example: peace through preparation

[telomerase]

We firearms enthusiasts tend to forget that most people don't even know the basics. There's no point to arguing about details of firearm laws when the majority don't even know that the most peaceful society on Earth has always been heavily armed:

http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/walker/walker1.html

 

[mondocomputerman]

Famous Metallica Lyrics: To secure peace is to prepare for war.

Don't Tread on Me

 

[io333]

uh... try about 200 years before metallica. sheesh

 

[Gifted]

After 9-11, the Swiss told passengers to carry their bayonets onto their airliners

I like that part. Bradies would gag and die!

 

[Don Gwinn]

io333, lighten up. The phrase goes back a LOT farther than 200 years, (HINT: there's a reason it's often stated in Latin) and it IS part of a pretty good song by Metallica.

He was right, in other words, and you "corrected" him with a fact that isn't so. Let it go.

 

[io333]

Sorry.

 

[io333]

I was also letting my personal feelings about metallica get into that post. Hint: I have political problems with metallica.

 

[Zedicus]

Qui desiderat pacem, bellum praeparat; nemo provocare ne offendere audet quem intelliget superiorem esse pugnaturem

(Whosoever desires peace prepares for war; no one provokes, nor dares to offend, those who they know know to be superior in battle.)


Shortened Version

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

(If you would have peace, prepare for war.)