When pupils complain that history lessons are pointless because they’re all about things that have been and gone, the obvious retort is that learning about the past can stop us repeating mistakes in the future.
America, I think we all know, is a nation obsessed with firearms, from the Colt six-shooters of Western legends, to the rapid-fire semi-automatics of the Robocopped SWAT teams.
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