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Nice, if not dated, statistics. A deterrent, maybe, but a sloppy one considering how many women are shot by their partners and how many people die from self-inflicted gun-shot wounds.
But, really, what do home-invasions and muggings have to do with a guy losing his nut and shooting up a mall? Do you really think this guy would have changed his mind if he thought people were armed?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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