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Related: About this forumI did not choose to take up the pen, the brush, the camera. I chose this instrument. I chose the gun
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I did not choose to take up the pen, the brush, the camera. I chose this instrument. I chose the gun (Original Post)
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TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)1. Excellent talk.
rug
(82,333 posts)3. Obama said something similar in his speech accepting the Nobel Prize.
He's persuasive but I don't think I buy all of it.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)4. Back when we actually discussed pacifism...
and when Quaker thought was more common, there was the question of while violence was to be abhorred, just what do we do about those who didn't abhor violence...
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)2. There is a time, a place and a use for the gun.
It is not all the time, everywhere or support for a flagging id.