Just pointing out violence is evil no matter what flag its under.
Violence is not always evil and it kind of makes me sad that you feel that way.
Sick.
If you believed violence was always evil you wouldn't be a gun nut.
Self defense is evil?
Right....why did you agree with the "sick" part then? And if somebody is beating somebody else with a baseball bat in the street, is it ok if I voilently push him over? Should I just ask nicely?
There is a way to exercise self defense without it becoming "violent". A man who uses judo to ward off an attacker with a knife is not being violent, but defensive. Just brandishing a gun lessens the possibility of someone attacking you, therefore that in itself can be considered self-defense. Here is what Wikipedia says about "violence":
According to this definition, the act of defense (that is defense against complete unprovoked attack) is not violent. If a person so wills it within himself to attack me, he engages in the violent act, and if I so willed to pull out my gun and shoot him in the foot in self defense, he is still the violent aggressor for trying to compel action against my will. Defense is not violent.
The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, as hard as it may be to see with your politically correct history tinted glasses on, was by no means unprovoked, was an act of desperation by the Japanese Empire due to concerns that they would run out of bunker oil in less than two years thanks to the American oil embargo in response to the Japanese invasion of
French Indochina. I mention this because although America was not directly involved in the war before 1941, by favoring aid to one side over another she definitely was provoking the other side into taking violent action. "Keeping America out of the war" means exactly that, keeping us out of the war completely and not playing favorites. FDR, just like Wilson before him, was very great at portraying his very pro-Allied stances before 1942 as being "neutral".
The attack on Pearl Harbor, as well as the Japanese declaration of war against the United States, as cruel and as ugly as it may sound, was not an unprovoked attack. The United States jumping into World War II was not an act of self defense, but rather a retalitory measure to the provoked attack of the Japanese on Pearl Harbor.
As painful as this may sound, the United States involvement in World War II was violent and therefore evil, even if the actions of Adolf Hitler's Germany and Hirohito's Japan were even more violent and evil. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Now, right now most of you may have lost a little bit of respect for me for saying something like this, but the United States had no moral or ethical obligation to get itself involved in World War II. The deeds of Adolf Hitler's Germany may have been some of the most disgusting crimes against humanity ever in the history of mankind, but those weren't American Jews, those weren't American gays, those weren't American Catholics, those weren't American gypsies, those weren't American people being rounded up wholesale and being thrown into concentration camps, therefore we had no moral or ethical obligation to get ourselves involved in the War in Europe.
At the risk of sounding like a heartless bastard, we had a moral obligation to sit back, do nothing, and watch as millions of non-American lives were extinguished in the hell known as war. After all, it was because of the actions of original Allied Powers after World War I that put into place the events of World War 2 possible.
So yes, maybe I am a heartless bastard with no sense of humanity for having this position of doing nothing during World War II, but I would be damned before I threw my support behind either Hitler or Stalin.