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HassleCat

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1. MAD -- Mutually Assured Destruction.

Reply to Cyrano (Original post)

Sun Jun 12, 2016, 01:30 PM

Jun 2016

This is another way of looking at the NRA idea that an armed society is a polite society. We all have loaded firearms at all times, so we know we will be shot if we get out of line. Or so the theory goes.

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