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    One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances.

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Expecting a carjacker or rapist or drug pusher to care that his possession or use of a gun is unlawful read more

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