[Salon] 'Give a sissy a gun'

Subject: [Salon] 'Give a sissy a gun'

From: Chas Freeman <cwfresidence@gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:08:05 -0500

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'Give a sissy a gun'

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Talleyrand

Feb 14

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Lindsey Graham bangs his drum:

For the quotation, see here:

The gift that keeps on giving

Talleyrand

March 21, 2024

Give a sissy a gun and he will kill everything in sight. TR [Theodore Roosevelt]’s slaughter of the animals in the Badlands outdoes in spades the butcheries of that sissy of a later era, Ernest Hemingway. Elks, grizzly bears, blacktail bucks are killed joyously while a bear cub is shot, TR reports proudly, ‘clean through … from end to end’ (the Teddy be…

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