RAZD writes:
Would the city be more peaceful if the residents protesting the shooting were carrying assault rifles?
Strangely enough, fantasies about liberty-loving armed Americans resisting jackbooted government thugs don't feature the colorful residents of Ferguson, MO.
Historical ironies: the right wing promotes "2nd Amendment solutions" to an ever-imminently oppressive government, echoing the credo of the Black Panthers (and Mao), that all power flows from the barrel of a gun...echoing the same Black Panthers who studied the North Korean doctrine of
juche, or self-reliance, and created their own soup kitchens, neighborhood watches and schools...sorta like the survivalists and home-schoolers today, most of them gun enthusiasts who anticipate repelling government thugs...
Let me say, as a man of some Sicilian heritage, that clearly, as a species, we have a tendency to go to the mattresses.
Also, the Panthers were pretty much all killed.
"If you can keep your head while those around you are losing theirs, you can collect a lot of heads."