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Thursday, 30 October 2003

Toy Gun Shuts Down Capitol Office

According to CNN, toy gun in a bag caused a lock-down of a Capitol office building. How utterly ridiculous! Who cares—so someone had a (toy) pistol. For nearly a century it was common practise for men to carry weapons into the Capitol itself. Andrew Jackson once challenged the entire Senate to a duel. Weapons are only an issue when a few have them, because those few suddenly have a lever on the many. If most men still carried weapons, we’d be safer, but more importantly we’d be freer.


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