ESR's Anti-Idiotarian Manifesto

[MaggieL]

Originally posted by Nic Name
Do you need links?

Not really. I like to do my own threat analysis.

The Jihadists have and use vastly superior firepower; for them I'd really like to see my tax dollars buy me some defense leveraged by economies of scale and inspired by scriptures like the Talmudic Tractate Sanhedrin 72b...not that we're Jewish, but we do know A Good Idea when we see it, too.

Not that we wouldn't be pleased if a Jihadist threat were stopped or deterred by our household defenses (like ESR said, "meet the distributed threat with a distributed response"). But we're Equal Opportunity about such things; when attacked we don't intend to waste time quibbling about the merits of the precise ideology of the attackers, as some other folks might like us to do.

That said, by my reckoning the "Christian" threats are more local, low intensity, and better-met by lower-tier defenses; in that event we'll rely on the household armory to hold us until the cops can get here. Since I pay my local taxes as well as my federal ones, the local cops have served us quite well; I'm confident of their support even though they're likely mostly Christians themselves.