“Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.”

—  Edward Abbey

Abbey's Road in In Defense of the Redneck (1979), p. 168.

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American author and essayist 1927–1989

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