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Mar 09, 2022
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My friend wants to join the reservists. He doesn’t want to panic but he thinks that in the future it might be useful to know how to fire a gun.

I agree. As sanctions bite, and war continues, it might be useful to know something about growing food and staying warm as well. As I wrote in a column about “prepping” last year, “The broad premises of the phen…

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