As Margaret Thatcher said,
"Europe was created by history, America was created by philosophy."
I have been reading about France during the Occupation, read one account where a couple of Parisians armed with a hammer and a blackjack ambushed a German officer-to get his pistol. There was the OSS designed Liberator pistol which was never issued it seems, interesting to speculate how a resistance movement would operate with 3-D printing.
I read a story from the PRC which said a police station in a rural area had one handgun for 20 officers.
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