8 August 1998 Firearms are used for killing. This is hardly open to discussion, despite euphemistic terminology such as “destroying enemy forces and military technology”. Politicians in civilized, democratic countries take great care not to be photographed with firearms (except when hunting, and even that today is unpopular and politically incorrect); Winston Churchill was an […]

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