>>>>Simply put - guns reduce crime.
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>>>If it were so simple, every country would have doled out guns to every citizen. So far, only the Swiss have something of the kind.
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>>Like the fella says:
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>>Like the fella says, in Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock. So long Holly.
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>As we said elsewhere, that's not Graham Greene - that's Orson Welles. He inserted that text and gave it to his Harry Lime in "The Third Man".
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>With all due respect to the late mr Welles, this whole mantra of "war is good for science and art" is baloney. It's just the weapons' industry sales pitch.

What about "necessity is the mother of all inventions"? The military needed it, so it was invented. And some of those invented gadgets happens to be very applicable to civilian use.

.... I guess.