The result, say some scholars to the NRA's delight, is both lower crime and better economics (Sterling Burnett of the National Centre for Policy Analysis impressively calculates that the deterrent effect of "defensive gun use" confers a net benefit ranging between $1 billion and $38.8 billion a year).Say all this enough times and the audience will doubtless forget the distraction of Littleton.
The artwork, which depicts a characteristically weepy Cheryl towering above the landscape outside Newcastle in a reimagining of Antony Gormley's sculpture "Angel of the North", will doubtless be forgotten in the coming weeks, drowned beneath waves of media speculation about the future of Cowell and his "chav princess", or about a WAG's suitability for the cover of fashion's most famous magazine.
When he died, in 1922, he was buried in a coffin embellished with a blue planet Earth and the words The President of Planet Earth, Velimir 1. Were it not for his peculiarity, and the fact that he lived when he did, Khlebnikov would doubtless be forgotten.
Job: deputy chief operating officer, News Corporation Age: 39 Industry: broadcasting, digital media, publishing 2011 ranking: 11 It has been a year that James Murdoch would doubtless choose to forget – and not just because he tumbles to the verge of dropping out of the MediaGuardian 100.
If India win that, and then beat South Africa on Monday to make the semi-finals – assuming their run-rate has not been fatally damaged by a defeat with more than a quarter of Australia's innings to spare – this humiliation will doubtless be forgiven and forgotten.
Its near-annihilation does not mean that Quebec separatism is spent, but at least many more Quebeckers now seem to want to play a more constructive role in federal politics.Don't forget the moderate majorityMr Harper is doubtless delighted that the NDP's rise turns politics into a straight fight between right and left.
The pundits had forgotten that favourite of all the Kennedy lines, lifted from a Tennyson poem and doubtless first impressed upon all his sons by old Joe at the kitchen table in Hyannis, the Cape Cod town that remained Teddy's home until the end: "To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield".
People there have not forgotten the Taliban massacres of the 1990s and the fear and anxieties they brought will doubtless resurface.
Doubtless at least some of these stories originated in real battles with beasts whose true nature has been forgotten, as a result of their extinction.
Steph, looking increasingly (in the words of Wodehouse) like the woman who's been poured into her dress and forgotten to say "when", got pissed, but not as pissed as Dom, who was (as he would doubtless have described it) hog-whimperingly drunk by the time he met Nigel at the pub.
