Reply #89: "carrying a gun" - its a metaphor.

[yodoobo]

In this country we tend to make auto-heroes out of those who go out and kill those in other countries.

"shot a foreigner"? Well then your a hero! "carried a rifle in an illegally occupied country?" Well then your a hero!

Sorry, I reject that.

Certainly there are heroes who have given life and/or everything in defense of our rights. Some of them are war heroes, some of them are fighters here in our own country. Is Rosa Parks less of a hero than Audi Murphy?

That said, some of the actions that our country has taken overseas are not apt to produce heroes. Most of us would argue that the entire Iraq war is a crime as opposed to a hero minting exercise. In fact I would say that those who oppose the war and who worked to end the war are the heroes here.