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    "title": "Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "tags": [
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            "relId": "civil-rights",
            "title": "Civil Rights",
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    "created": "2011-07-19 03:55:57 UTC",
    "updated": [
        "2011-07-19 03:55:57 UTC"
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    "html": "<blockquote>\n<p>[T]he bearing of arms functions not merely as an assertion of power but as a fierce and redemptive discipline. When sudden death hangs inches from your right hand, you become much more careful, more mindful, and much more peaceful in your heart -- because you know that if you are thoughtless or sloppy in your actions or succumb to bad temper, people will die.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>via <em><a href=\"http://www.catb.org/~esr/guns/gun-ethics.html\">Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun</a></em>.</p>\n"
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