I did not choose to take up the pen, the brush, the camera. I chose this instrument. I chose the gun

[rug]

Transcript: http://www.ted.com/talks/peter_van_uhm_why_i_chose_a_gun/transcript?language=en

[TreasonousBastard]

1. Excellent talk.

[rug]

3. Obama said something similar in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize.

He's persuasive but I don't think I buy all of it.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. Back when we actually discussed pacifism...

and when Quaker thought was more common, there was the question of while violence was to be abhorred, just what do we do about those who didn't abhor violence...

[flamin lib]

2. There is a time, a place and a use for the gun.

It is not all the time, everywhere or support for a flagging id.