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Marie Curie: 'Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.'
This might apply to the vital need for our nation to come to some kind of rational understanding concerning our national obsession with long range lethal weapons, outside the context of the limited scope of second amendment debates, as well as it does to the necessity of our understanding the nature & national health implications of lethal communicable diseases.
Marie Curie: 'Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.'
This might apply to the vital need for our nation to come to some kind of rational understanding concerning our national obsession with long range lethal weapons, outside the context of the limited scope of second amendment debates, as well as it does to the necessity of our understanding the nature & national health implications of lethal communicable diseases.