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My Tribe Wants Me to Buy Guns for Them. In PNG, This is a Real Dilemma

26 March 2007

National (Port Moresby), Column

There is a raging dilemma facing a good friend of mine. It is not the first time he has been presented with this dilemma and I know it will not be the last time. It is something you have to face as a male, a Papua New Guinean and especially as a highlander. Guns, that's his dilemma. His people have been begging him for a while now to buy guns for them and the pressure has increased again. "It is a seasonal thing," he told me recently. "They ask when they need it.... (GunPolicy.org)

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