Answering the 'cycle of violence' chestnut

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Massad Ayoob is America's foremost expert on armed self defense. He is a veteren police officer of over 30 years experience, writer, advanced firearms instructer and director of the Lethal force Institute.

Here is how he answered a question about the cycle of violence as it pertained to criminals. His answer is also applicable to Israel's arab problem.


Peter and Helen: In your book, “The Truth About Self Protection,” you say we have the right to protect ourselves. How do you respond to those who say it only promotes the “cycle of violence”?


Massad: I refer them to Biology 101. When the predator chases down, destroys, and consumes its prey without intervention, the cycle of its violence continues. When the given predator is taken out of circulation, then by definition, its cycle of violence is ended for the duration. The criminal is the actor, his prey merely the reactor, and the cycle is dependent on the action of the predator.



This will be MY standard answer to to endless dumb 'cycle of violence' questions posed by muSSlim-nazis and their liberal enablers.