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"I see you've started carrying one," he said, nodding to the pistol Conn
had laid aside.

"Civic obligation. I'm going to be too busy for Home Guard duty, but if
I can protect myself, it'll save somebody else the job of protecting me."

"Maybe if there weren't so many guns around, there wouldn't be so much
trouble."

He felt his good opinion of Wade Lucas start to slip. The Liberals on
Terra had been full of that kind of talk, which was why only four out of
ten of last year's graduating class at Armed Forces Academy had been
able to get active commissions. The last war had been a disaster, so
don't prepare for another one; when it comes, let it be a worse disaster.

"Guns don't make trouble; people make trouble. If the troublemakers are
armed, you have to be armed too. When did you last see an Air Patrol