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To: Sam who wrote (211632)	12/14/2012 9:43:41 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 541122

I noticed that, Sam, but my problem is that apparently these were semi-automatic weapons. If that's the case, there is the question of the availability of these kinds of weapons. Doesn't make sense. The second is that the increasingly "guns are good" culture we are watching being created. Everyone should, somehow, have them, carry them in public. Any times there are mass killings, the argument goes there should be more guns for victims to defend themselves. No doubt we'll soon see the argument that if the principal of the school had a weapon she could have defended the school; or if teachers had weapons they could have done so.

To: Sam who wrote (211632)	12/14/2012 9:48:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541122

I think we have ourselves a predicament, not a problem. Is it a problem or a predicament? The late philosopher, Abraham Kaplan felt that there was a difference between problems and predicaments. To philosopher Kaplan a problem as something that has a cause, a reason. There is something that went wrong. A problem can be identified, analyzed, and then fixed or solved.... ... Philosopher Kaplan felt that there is such a thing as a predicament. He felt the predicament is something that is permanent; something that there is no solution for and therefore no solution is available when something is a predicament. He felt that the best thing you could do was to cope with a predicament. Philosopher Kaplan felt that permanent, inescapable, complicated paradoxical dilemmas exist that can’t be solved but only tolerated. The dilemmas can only be coped with. leadershiptidbits.com