Day Brown wrote:
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Only when the gun eliminated the need for bravery with the sword in hand
did it start to come apart. Japan banned guns successfully for a long
time, an example of integrity that is hard to match.

Integrity? Is maintaining tyranny by making the force of arms and the
knowledge to effectively use them only available to a select minority
what you consider integrity? I'd be more inclined to consider it the
final desperate throws of a dictator struggling to hold power in the
face of progress and freedom for the people.

For that matter, how does a firearm eliminate the need for bravery?
Reading the medical history of the U.S. Civil War, in particular, will
disabuse you of that delusion in short order.

But what do I know?

TK

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