Brexit is the British NRA

Allan Milne Lees
4 min readSep 6, 2019
Just a Harmless Little Assault Rifle

We humans find it nearly impossible to change our minds once we’ve come to believe something. This is because during most of the 400,000+ years of our evolutionary history there was rarely any need to change our minds.

Once we knew how to nap a flint, those flints got napped. Once we knew how to track a gazelle, those gazelles got tracked. Once we knew how to make fire, fires got made. Life was simple and in…

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Allan Milne Lees

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