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[AussieMick]

reading all the above I was reminded of an Orwell quotation ... when I searched I found another that I'll include

#1 (written in 1940 but the theme is true)
“What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.”

(If I were an English Lit teacher I set that as a homework question as in ... "(quotation)" Discuss.


#2
“That rifle on the wall of the labourer's cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.”

Now that seems very apt for the controversy over gun ownership ... it can be taken as supporting gun ownership of course ... but also the last sentence makes the strongest point.