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Kelvin Mace

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17. I hope you are right

Reply to DirkGently (Reply #9)

Fri Jan 17, 2014, 04:06 PM

Jan 2014

But I fear he will walk.

If his victim were black, it would be a certainty.

My view is has always been that "An armed society may be a polite society, but only as long as you choose who is armed VERY carefully."

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