"I have no patience with individuals who claim that everything will be beautiful if guns and other weapons are outlawed. These people do not have the foresight to realise that, if weapons are made illegal, they will only be possessed by enemies of the people (i.e., the army, the police, outlaws, and madmen). I feel very strongly that every person should be armed and that he or she should be prepared for the worst. There is no justice left in the system. The only real justice is that which the individual creates for himself, and the individual is helpless without a gun. This may sound like the dogma expounded by radical right-wing groups, like the Minute Men. It is."
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Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 78.
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William Powell (author)
1949 – 2016
William Powell (1949-2016) was the author of The Anarchist Cookbook, which he had disowned. He and his wife were the co-directors of Education Across Frontiers, an organization aimed at the professional development of international school teachers and administrators.
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