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“grew up with guns and I needed them. Most people don’t. All these high-capacity guns flashed by the nutcakes? They’re a disaster. If I had my way, there’d be no guns but single-shot hunting rifles and single-shot shotguns. You could do all the target shooting you want with those. You could hunt to your heart’s content. Of course, you’d actually have to learn how to hunt or how to hit a target, and most of those dimwits don’t want to be bothered.”
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“When someone else seeks to control what I see or hear, I have to assume they think they're superior and I'm too stupid to make up my own mind.”
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“What you lose as you age is witnesses, the ones that watched from early on and cared, like your own little grandstand.”
― Rabbit Is Rich
― Rabbit Is Rich
“We live our lives surrounded by the darkness... I want to try to be a light for others.”
― The Moth Keeper
― The Moth Keeper
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