Rattlesnakes! Don't take... «Гроздья гнева»
leila_i31 января 2018Rattlesnakes! Don't take chances with 'em, an' if they argue, shoot first. If a kid'll kill a cop, what'll men do? Thing is, get tougher'n they are. Treat them rough. Scare 'em. What if they won't scare? What if they stand up and take it and shoot back? These men were armed when they were children. A gun is an extention of themselves. What if they won't scare? What if some time an army of them marches on the land as the Lombards did in Italy, as the Germans did on Gaul and the Turks did on Byzantium? They were land-hungry, ill-armed hordes too, and the legions could not stop them. Slaughter and terror did not stop them. How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him-he has known a fear beyond every other
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