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" Fourteen-year-old boys are not part of a well-regulated militia. Members of wacky religious cults are not part of a well-regulated militia. Permitting unregulated citizens to have guns is destroying the security of this free state. "

Molly Ivins

Security

Guns

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" I spent my girlhood as a Clydesdale among thoroughbreds. "

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