Quote Originally Posted by GAAP View Post
But more importantly when folks think & feel that violence is getting worse they mean violence is getting worse in my area, in my lifetime. And I would agree. The level of terrorism in my lifetime, in my part of the world, has gone up.
The statistics don't back this up, either, I'm afraid. Crime rate in Dallas, Texas (TX): murders, rapes, robberies, assaults, burglaries, thefts, auto thefts, arson, law enforcement employees, police officers statistics People "feel" a lot about crime based on the evening news. They're generally wrong.

Quote Originally Posted by GAAP View Post
I would do whatever I needed to do to obtain the plan & route from the one I caught to protect innocent people. Saying that is an equivalent evil to the one perpetrated by the terrorists in mis-guided.
I'd argue that systematized state-sanctioned torture is, broadly, a worse evil than savage acts by perpetrated by any one person. Potato, Potahto.