🚀 go-pugleaf

Scott Hillard wrote:
> 
> > I think that there should be no exceptions: either you do your National
> > Service *training*, or you don't qualify for citizenship. It should
> > apply to immigrants as well as natives.
> 
> > No exceptions means that everybody's life is equally ``interrupted''
> > (more or less).
> 
> Federal Service guarantees citizenship.
> 
> Why DO you want to be a citizen, Johnny Rico?

Scott, maybe Johnny has a desire to follow the teachings of Aristotle.

"Aristotle considered the possession of arms synonymous with possession
of political power: "when the citizens at large administer the state for
the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a
constitution . . . in a constitutional government the fighting men have
the supreme power, and those who possess arms are the citizens." (Book
3, ch VII)."
-- 
 . . . the notion that crime can be defeated by depriving its victims of
all the means of self defense is a form of idiocy, which George Orwell
described well when he made the remark, "Only an intellectual could
believe something as stupid as that." Criminologist Don Kates 9/21/1999