Finally someone is using some common sense! The town of greenleaf is recommending that everyone arm themselves for self defense, and they are setting up "citizen response teams and neighborhood watch groups". What a novel idea! Citizens arming themselves to protect themselves. Somebody, please hug these people!

We, as Americans, should have our own citizen militias set up, have bomb shelters and drills for nuclear attack- the fact that we aren't scares the snot out of me. The question is not "if" we will come under nuclear attack, but "when". Most people have no idea what to do. Most people have no emergency provisions stockpiled, and wouldn't have the slightest idea of how to live a week without electricity. Training our citizens in how to handle these emergency situations should be a priority right now. Anyone who persists in the thinking that the government or anyone else can help you in an emergency should rethink Katrina and the mess in New Orleans.