[Magdalen] My County responds.

[M J _Mike_ Logsdon]

>>>And for the record, I don't believe for a moment that you believe the current state of affairs to be an unavoidable evil.  Just because we haven't yet hit on a solution doesn't mean that we should, or dare to, stop trying.  (I bet we can agree on that last sentence.)<<<

Just like my response to a friend who said the U.S. can't be like the other countries with virtually no homicide, because they're vastly older political entities, and the U.S. is relatively young and still fantasizes about frontierism and stake-claiming and -holding.  To which my response was, Yes, and they were young political entities once too.  They had to start the civilising process at some point.  Now it's our turn.  And the result will be that one of these aeons, the U.S. will grow up, put on its big boy pants, and behave towards itself for a change.