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Our Chris Smith’s main worry is that his kindly alternate dimension father and brother will find out that he killed his doppelganger in an act of self-defense; Earth X Peacemaker would have murdered him otherwise.

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“How many people do you have to hurt before self-defense feels like a hollow refrain?”

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However, Bray has written, most if not all antifa members “wholeheartedly support militant self-defense against the police and the targeted destruction of police and capitalist property.”

Parks officials say it was probably surprised too and merely acting in self-defense.

These more modern firearms became not only practical tools of war, crime or self-defense but symbolic objects in their own right.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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