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    THE JAG FILE

    Jun 04, 2019 4 minutes
    With John Adams-Graf

    OPINIONS ARE LIKE MACHINE GUNS…

    ...You might have one, but not everyone wants to see it or hear it.

    Okay, I paraphrased and readapted what my Dad used to say about opinions — this is a family-oriented editorial, after all! However, Dad’s favorite saying about opinions seems to fit in with a recent Jeep/machine gun controversy.

    Last June, then-Kansas Secretary of State and Republican gubernatorial candidate, Kris Kobach, entered a parade in Shawnee, Kansas, riding on the back of modern Jeep in a patriotic red-white-and-blue wrap that sported a dummy machine gun on the roll bar.

    By now, most of us in the hobby are pretty sensitive to the

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