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What Guns Do, and What they Don't

Guns make conflict more dangerous. But they don't make it more likely.

A guy I worked with, long ago, beat a man to death with a pipe. He didn't mean to; a friend of his had gotten into a drunken shouting match that escalated into a fight.

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