Reply #3: Our relentless program on behalf of violence yields the expected result

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The United States and its citizens believe in Violence. We willingly, even eagerly, will do anything for Violence, up to and including sacrificing our children to it. We use Violence as the Solution of First Resort, Last Resort, and every resort in between. We believe in Violence when it works. We believe in Violence even more fervently when it doesn't work. If Violence doesn't work, our first alternative is to try more Violence. If more Violence doesn't work, repeat the first alternative.

We celebrate Violence, glorify Violence, and practice Violence with a zeal that evangelicals of other causes can only envy. Proposals to reduce Violence are universally met with hoots of derision, and anyone who bad-mouths Violence had better be prepared to have our society's First Resort practiced on him.

It could be and can be no other way.