On Sun, 03 May 2020 10:31:15 +1000, Bruce > wrote:

>On Sat, 02 May 2020 20:50:28 -0300, Lucretia Borgia
> wrote:
>
>>On Sun, 03 May 2020 07:55:15 +1000, Bruce > wrote:
>>
>>>On Sat, 02 May 2020 18:47:48 -0300, Lucretia Borgia
> wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Sat, 02 May 2020 14:30:01 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Lucretia Borgia wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> They are not weapons you would use for hunting or defending your home,
>>>>>> but rather military type weapons, made to kill many and quickly.
>>>>>
>>>>>That's what war is all about.
>>>>
>>>>I can agree but it is why I am glad they are going to be only for the
>>>>military in this country. Civilians do not need them.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Weapons of war. I agree that I think men who want to own them are
>>>>>> really covering up their own physical inadequacies, something like old
>>>>>> bald men driving Maserati's.
>>>>>
>>>>>Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
>>>>>
>>>>>Q: I suppose with the feminist thing, did you also
>>>>>support women's right to fight in combat? Should they
>>>>>also be drafted if a draft ever happens again?
>>>>>Not YOUR daughter though.
>>>>
>>>>So much burble - I did and do support a woman's right to fight in
>>>>combat, yes, they should also be drafted but maybe not to actually
>>>>fight, as with men, some are not combat minded.
>>>
>>>All men are?
>>
>>Can't you read? "as with men, some are not combat minded'
>
>So if I had been Canadian or American and drafted and said "Sorry, I'm
>not combat minded", I wouldn't have to fight?

There are other jobs even in times of war. Sending someone in to
combat who is not able to handle it is a liability.

During WWII there were many pacifists who offered themselves for other
jobs, just as dangerous to themselves. One of my fathers friends
offered his body in the rushed search for a med for malaria which was
creating problems in Burma etc. Whatever it was they tested on him,
did not work and he spent the rest of his life lying in a bed. My
father would visit him when in the UK and felt he had served as well.
In some ways he felt he had given more than those who went or died.