The power of a gun to settle a dispute cannot be denied,<\/p>\n
certainly\u00a0when it comes to the acute\u00a0 dispute<\/p>\n
[within the larger dispute] of\u00a0 whether the person on<\/p>\n
the receiving\u00a0 end lives or dies.<\/p>\n
For the most part I do not think I\u00a0 want to be in that<\/p>\n
situation, that is to say of holding the gun or<\/span><\/p>\n being confronted with it.<\/p>\n Yet survival is not bred into us, it is inherent, and I daresay<\/p>\n a policeman in particular would be extremely aware of it.<\/p>\n Islander.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The power of a gun to settle a dispute cannot be denied, certainly\u00a0when it comes to the acute\u00a0 dispute [within the larger dispute] of\u00a0 whether the person on the receiving\u00a0 end lives or dies. For the most part I do not think I\u00a0 want to be in that situation, that is to say of holding … Continue reading “On guns”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-679","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":681,"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679\/revisions\/681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewalrussaid.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}