“I'd been carrying [my Ruger.41 Magnum] so many days that I had almost forgotten it was there. This was the kind of world we now lived in.”

— James Howard Kunstler , book World Made By Hand

Source: World Made By Hand (2008), Chapter 36, p. 171

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