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There is a languge that all human beings understand perfectly when they are staring into the muzzle of a gun. Jeff Cooper once wrote about the importance of the law-abiding citizen's constitutional right to own a firearm: "Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles."

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Addendum and a prediction: the "heat of passion" defense to reduce sentencing of violent criminals and murderers will presumably also become more common when a person who is a victim of "hate speech" in the form of a racial slur attempts to or succeeds in murdering someone who dared to utter the fordbidden word.

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