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   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 1 Mar 2026 19:52:36 -0000 (UTC), BTR1701 wrote:   
      
   > ... I have a sister who is alive today because she defended herself   
   > with a gun when she was attacked. And that she didn't freeze in fear   
   > for even a moment.   
      
   That kind of thing is very rarely successful. Outside of a war zone,   
   the vast majority of deployment of guns tend to end badly.   
      
   In other words, for every one person like your sister, there are   
   something like 30 dead bodies of those for whom things didn’t turn out   
   quite so well ...   
      
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