You're absolutely right Mike. The majority of deaths are not combat related. I think disease is far and away the number 2 k**ler
followed by carpet bombing of enemy cities Hamburg, Dresden etc.(RAF night raids Bomber Harris).

And last, the free range straffing of everything on the ground and in homes by the US and British pilots after the collapse of the
Luftwaffe in the last weeks of the war.

Geneva Convention really?

What do paratroopers behind enemy lines (ex. Operation Market Garden) do when they take prisoners? Magically fly them to England? No. They shoot them.

I knew members of the 101st who were in the operation (Sept. 1944). That's what they had to do.

PeterS is correct. The captain's action jeopardized the entire mission.

Clearly, the students have to be trained. This is not a theoretical exercise. Devising scenarios and using dummy shooters and victims it is possible to create a defense reflex in the students.
If memory serves that shooting in Virginia was at a college.

Not only can this be done, I think it must be done.

Starting with the school shooter in Virginia, who stopped to reload in the classroom, why haven't students been trained to throw desks and chairs at these maniacs? And once having subdued the nut use the chairs and desks to beat the hell of of him.

Desks, chairs ,books, marble book ends, brief cases, etc. are all potential weapons and should be used to unbalance and overpower these insane assailants.

While the above deals with the immediate problem a longer term solution might be to re-institute the draft.

Had this been in place this shooter might have been identified as a potential menace as early as the reception center or certainly during his tour of duty, given the extensive testing employed by all branches of the military.

Requiring all 18 year olds to serve 6 months or a year of military service would help to give them a sense of 'giving back' to the nation; enhance their feelings of self respect; untie the mother's apron strings (see helicopter moms); self-reliance; experience the traditional mark of a free man (keeping and bearing arms); and lastly, learn about other peoples and disciplines as well as offering educational and career paths.

No law can prevent the next lunatic attack but recognizing that everyday objects can also serve as effective weapons coupled with real-life training in their use should help to mitigate the damage of the next attack.

Starting with the school shooter in Virginia, who stopped to reload in the classroom, why haven't students been trained to throw desks and chairs at these maniacs? And once having subdued the nut use the chairs and desks to beat the hell of of him.

Desks, chairs ,books, marble book ends, brief cases, etc. are all potential weapons and should be used to unbalance and overpower these insane assailants.

While the above deals with the immediate problem a longer term solution might be to re-institute the draft.

Had this been in place this shooter might have been identified as a potential menace as early as the reception center or certainly during his tour of duty, given the extensive testing employed by all branches of the military.

Requiring all 18 year olds to serve 6 months or a year of military service would help to give them a sense of 'giving back' to the nation; enhancing their feeling of self respect; unting the mother's apron strings (see helicopter moms); self-reliance; experiencing the traditional mark of a free man (keeping and bearing arms); and lastly, learning about other peoples and disciplines as well as offering educational and career paths.

No law can prevent the next lunatic attack but recognizing that everyday objects can also serve as effective weapons coupled with real life training in their use should help to mitigate the damage of the next attack.

Look at your money: "E Pluribus Unum" which means out of many - one. I.e. one people, one country
one idea of liberty etc.
Not out of many, many, many more in great confusion.
Who would want that? Who benefits by that?

You've been had. Don't single out the most oppressed group in the last 50 years (ie Muslims). It seems to be a common trait among many people to grab the pitchfork and light the torch to burn anybody who is accused of wrongdoing without any proof.

It's sad.

I think Moore should be supported on principle. Accusations are what led to the Salem Witch Trials and the h*****g of innocent people.
Without evidence and proof these accusations fall into the category of slander - a criminal act.
Not to mention the biblical injunction "let he (or she) who is free of sin cast the first stone."

The whole climate thing since the early 1960's has never been about science or climate. It has always been about establishing dictatorship.

The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right. It, along with nine other enumerated rights (i.e. The Bill of Rights see its preamble etc.) were listed as amendments although there were some who thought they should be incorporated into the body of the Constitution. Madison thought that could set a bad precedent and chose to list them as Amendments instead. They cannot be Constitutionally repealed.
Also, see Bill of Rights 1689 re: right to keep and bear arms.

Stalin and Hitler concluded a non-aggression pact on August 23, 1939. Also known as the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact after their respective foreign ministers, it called for a period non-aggression lasting 10 years and defined spheres of influence as well as secret territorial protocols. Subsequent amendments led to trade cooperation and adjustments of some borders.
It was abrogated unilaterally on June 22, 1941 when German forces invaded the Soviet Union.

I was born before World War II. I lost my Grandfather and Godfather who risked their lives fighting the Axis powers, not obeying them. ISIS, Al Queda and the Taliban are nothing like Japan. The issues bear no similarity.
Does the writer expect us to believe that Jews in a raft came here from Poland or Germany and made it to Ellis Island? That insults our intelligence. Atrocity stories, real or imagined, committed by foreign nations have nothing to do with the United States who willingly sacrificed the lives of hundreds of thousands of her youth to defeat two of the three great tyrannies of the war. Let's not.

In your list of suspect countries you omitted Israel - the major player in the Middle East.

It is said the first casualty of war is T***H. The next must be intelligence. Where is the proof that this was ordered by Assad? Or even done by a Syrian plane? And don't just say it had Syrian markings on it. Any fool can see through that one. On the day of the attack on Pearl Harbor many people, including military, said that the flying of the enemy planes was so spectacular that they must have been piloted by Germans since the shape of Japanese eyes would rule them out as pilots. What BS! Needless to say later in the day some people would report having seen German markings on the planes.

When a crime is committed we say "Follow the money" - in international affairs we ask "Who got the benefit from this?".

You're absolutely right. I'm not even sure the term existed.

The 1715 pamphlet to which I alluded was from Philadelphia and would reflect the sentiments current at that time and place.