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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Least common denominator?
Necessary? No. Effective? Yes. In most situations, a firearm is simply risk mitigation in action. Least amount of me, most amount of target.
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I cannot disagree with reason. It's like hedging your bets.
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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Ooo, QUICK! HORRIBLE COMPARISON:
We didn't need the A-bomb to end WW2 but I'm glad we used it.
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It saddens me deeply that you think this about America's greatest wartime atrocity. This is a horrible comparison.
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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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