'Robin Hood of the Banks': Meet an activist on the run
"I had to do it." Enric Duran tells us why he made off with nearly half a million euros from Spanish banks.
'Robin Hood of the Banks': Meet an activist on the run
"I had to do it." Enric Duran tells us why he made off with nearly half a million euros from Spanish banks.
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Worldwide, guns are used far more often to violate, rather than defend, the human right to life. The right to bear arms is not a human right, but a peculiar privilege granted by the US Constitution.