Just shoot me
AMERICANS love their guns. Four in ten adults live in a household with a gun; one in ten has carried a handgun outside the home in the past year. Charlton Heston thrilled the National Rifle Association (NRA) when he told politicians that they would get his gun only by prising it from his “cold, dead hands”.
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