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Guns are used quite commonly in self-defense; estimates range from 110,000 (National Crime Victimization Study) to 1.5 million to 2.5 million yearly defensive gun uses (studies by largely pro-gun criminologist Gary Kleck and by largely anti-gun criminologist Philip Cook).
I see from the papers that the Y2K consultants are already extremely defensive, insisting that the problem wasn't hyped and that their $100 billion price tag was worth it.
Defensive End
Farther upriver, Valença do Minho boasts dramatic and powerful defensive walls (also housing a pousada).
EPI1 inhibits plant apoplastic proteases—extracellular enzymes that are part of the host's defensive armoury that have evolved to prevent foreign proteins entering cells.