Certainly armed guards might help, but are we willing to arm guards at every school?
Aware that its armed forces might be hard pressed to do significant damage to Iran's far-flung nuclear sites, Israel has said repeatedly that it wants the U.S. military to do the heavy lifting, arguing a nuclear Iran is a threat to the whole world.
The Pentagon estimates that about 26, 000 people in the armed forces might have been the victims of sexual abuse the last fiscal year and just in the past couple of weeks, there have been three now high profile cases where military leaders who were in charge of sexual abuse prevention programs were arrested for crimes against women.
Had some citizens been armed, they might have been able to stop the killings before the police got to the scene.
He has spoken of his concern that, far from wanting to be armed, neighbourhood constables might consider whether the body armour they routinely wear risks setting them apart.
The fact that Russians themselves want nothing to do with an armed intervention in Syria might be inconvenient or objectionable, but this is something that advocates of a more activist policy need to at least acknowledge.
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The current cap of 60 puts pressure on military jet pilots to bail out of the armed services earlier than they might otherwise do because of a fear that their lifetime earnings with a carrier will be unnecessarily limited.
Those might include the military, if a person was in the armed forces, or even jail, where an inmate might have been treated for a dental condition.
It also sounds like something a former soldier might shout out to intimidate armed intruders.
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If not, you might suffer an attack by armed civilians if you come across the wrong people on your way home.
In some ways I can imagine that the experience in business, human interaction, balancing checkbooks, people management discipline that an older generation has accrued might make older entrepreneurs better armed to start a business.
It is certainly the case that there are a number of bad actors and armed groups of extremists in Libya who might take advantage of a situation that was brought about initially as a response to the video in question.
Foreigners looking nervously at this nuclear-armed state wonder whether militants who murder ministers might one day take over the government.
The view that Hamas might be persuaded gradually to abandon armed struggle for politics, as Irish Republicans have over the past few years, gets short shrift here.
The heads of Nigeria 's army, navy and air force all retired amid speculation that President Olusegun Obasanjo might be trying to rid the armed forces of men loyal to the previous regime.
Galileo should have been operational by now but the project has run into myriad technical, commercial and political obstacles, including early objections from the US, who thought a rival system to GPS might be used to attack its armed forces.
Some members of the Supreme Council of Armed Forces may also back him "because he might maintain the status quo, " Ashour said.
Adopting an indifferent posture as she focuses for a moment on Zaak, she studies his expressions or lack of them, and remarks, with surprise, that he does not appear as if he is expecting an untoward occurrence: the telltale advent on the scene of armed youths intent on launching a virulent mayhem that might end in either of them being shot or killed.
Iran might also be seeking to increase the presence of armed groups such as Hezbollah as the latter represents a weapon of subversion and asymmetric war.
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Through a campaign of constant intimidation of UNIFIL forces, amplified by occasional armed attacks, Hizbullah has effectively destroyed any will that UNIFIL forces might have had to prevent Hizbullah from reasserting control over southern Lebanon.
It is sounding out representatives of the armed rebels, and the unarmed political opposition, to see if they might be willing to join Mr Kabila in a new transitional government.
Without emergency measures which might include cancelling training, leave and retirements the armed forces, and especially the army, could make no telling contribution to another mission for the United Nations in Lebanon, for example, or in Darfur.
One problem with eradication operations such as the one in Uruzgan is that they tend to set up confrontations between armed men and poor farmers: the only American a farmer ever meets might be the one who is destroying his harvest, rather than someone who is building a school or a clinic.
There are reports that some of these warlords who were candidates for flexing their muscles at the polling stations--turning up with armed escorts and so forth and after word of this got around, this might have deterred voters.
So in any large crowd, you might expect that a small percentage are dangerous, and some larger percentage are armed.
But many Indonesians might be persuaded to pay, if by doing so they could get the armed forces out of politics.
Soviet personnel in Iraq are enabling Saddam Hussein's forces to field Soviet-supplied military hardware that might otherwise be unusable or less effective against American troops in the event of armed conflict.
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It appears that, on reflection, the Wyoming House of Representatives has decided the risk of invasion by its neighbors is remote enough that it can do without its own armed forces for now, and in particular does not need to consider whether an aircraft carrier might come in handy.
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