The power of a gun to settle a dispute cannot be denied,
certainly when it comes to the acute dispute
[within the larger dispute] of whether the person on
the receiving end lives or dies.
For the most part I do not think I want to be in that
situation, that is to say of holding the gun or
being confronted with it.
Yet survival is not bred into us, it is inherent, and I daresay
a policeman in particular would be extremely aware of it.
Islander.