I have seen a lot of shooting going on in New Orleans. Cops shooting looters. Cops shooting gunmen. Looters shooting at helicopters!! People shooting eachother... Im sure you have seen it too. Had guns not been so readily available, would this problem have been a lot easier to resolve? Guns and of course the people who have them (either their own or ones they "looted") seem to have contributed to a lot of the problems now coming to light. Not many people really stayed to "protect"...

Over the last few years I have chatted with several people from Israel (mostly on ICQ - though I don't use it anymore) about the conflict there with Palestine. Most of the Israelis I have talked with have said that it isnt a big problem for them. I'm never sure weather it is because they live in the north (which most of them do) and it doesn't affect them so much, or if the Israeli media don't show what is happening on the ground, or if they are just in denial or even if they support what ...