They never lost anyone. Not like that. They wrote the scripts to try to make sense of it, but there is no sense. They couldn't know.
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Let's make something very clear: a gun's purpose is to take life. It is very efficient at this in relation to all other tools devised by humans to achieve this purpose. Anyone who supports granting the State a monopoly on this kind of power is grossly misguided and that's putting it diplomatically.