A LESSON FROM VIRGINIA TECH: Sigmund, Carl, and Alfred draw an initial lesson from the tragedy of the murders at Virginia Tech, based on an observation:

Switzerland and Israel are both countries with guns in every home, because of mandatory military service and reserve duty obligation In every household in those countries, there are guns. Nevertheless, the kind of gun violence we have just witnessed at Virginian Tech, at Columbine or other places, are unheard of in those places.

They conclude:

When violence or threats of violence are considered legitimate forms of political or social expression, inevitably violence or threats of violence will manifest themselves. Terror has becomes an accepted form of political and social expression, that status granted by those who most profess to be non violent or peaceful.

But which threats of violence are they referring to?

These?


Or these?

[Hat tip: Larwyn]
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