Poles Fear Putin, Arm Up

The Poles took a beating in WWII.  Roughly 2.7 million ethnic Poles and 3.0 million Polish Jews perished at the hands of Hitler's Nazis.  The Soviets, for their part, contributed tens of thousands of additional murders.  Those Poles that were spared got decades worth of effective slavery under an authoritarian communist government.  Lots of fun.

So, what was the one lesson that they - or any people - would take away from such a bitter history?

Guns.  You need them.  And lots of 'em.  And you need to know how to use them.

Even the New York Times can figure this much out.