Such is my thesis, that the licensing of weapons is subversive of liberty and self-defeating in its pious purpose. (Robert A. Heinlein)

Such is my thesis, that the licensing of weapons is subversive of liberty and self-defeating in its pious purpose.

Robert A. Heinlein

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