Tag / gun
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Inland Conservative Elites
Since the 2016 election, the prevailing consensus about America’s cultural divide is that there are the educated, wealthy, coastal liberal elites who look down on the poor, rural, conservative Americans who live in flyover states. Many Trump supporters cited this as the reason for their vote in the 2016 election. They were supposedly tired of…
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The Unproductive Response to Shooters
Two years ago I wrote an article about gun control for my high school’s political review following the tragic shooting at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College. Prominent news sources were quick to follow the tragedy with articles describing both the shooting and the shooter himself. Many of the articles I read focused on the shooter, his…
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Are We Safe?
How far does the constitutional right to carry a firearm extend? How comfortable are you with having open carry on campus? Coming from the Northeast, these are questions I never had to confront. Guns required a permit and largely Democratic state legislatures never made any move to change that. Living 20 minutes away from Sandy…
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Don’t Politicize a Tragedy — Yet
Yesterday, there was yet another horrific school shooting, this time at an elementary school in Conneticut. The fact that I can describe the shooting as yet another in a long line of shootings is appalling. Proponents of increased gun control are understandably furious that assault weapons are for sale and can be used to slaughter…
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Looking down the Barrel
Recent large-scale tragedies at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, and the Empire State Building have reinvigorated our nation’s debate over gun control. As America enters election season, gun control will undoubtedly be a point of great contention for voters. President Obama certainly believes in the constitutional right…
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The Belly of the Beast: Chapter 1
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Just before winter break began, Mr. [REDACTED] informed me that he had an outstanding story in the works, but remained coy, refusing to tell me any details. Eight days ago, after two months had gone by without hearing anything from him about this story, I sent him an e-mail telling him that…
