Tag / guns
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Race and the Right to Bear Arms
Over the course of the most recent episode of the American gun debate, a common narrative flowing from the armed among us is that a citizen’s right to provide for their own self-defense, from both other citizens and the State, cannot be infringed upon. Arguments are often made that frame an armed citizenry as a…
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America, the Pendulum
During my sophomore year of high school, in a classroom just 13 minutes from the site of the October 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, my speech and debate coach showed my class a video of a “duo interpretation.” A sharp departure from the humorous clips my coach typically opted for, the piece was a…
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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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United We Oppose, Divided We Govern
Anyone can tell you that Republicans are on the right and Democrats are on the left. But the left and right of what, exactly? The ubiquitous left-right dichotomy assumes that political parties can be placed along a one-dimensional ideological spectrum. This political fiction underlies most partisan political rhetoric; at the same time, it is becoming…
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On Vegas
During my sophomore year of high school, in a classroom just 13 minutes from the site of this week’s mass shooting in Las Vegas, my speech and debate coach showed my class a video of a ‘duo interpretation’. A sharp departure from the humorous clips my coach typically opted for, the piece was a ten-minute-long…
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Virginia Tech, Unfiltered
Shortly after noon today, a police officer was shot dead on the Virginia Tech campus. Minutes later, police discovered another body in a parking garage. The campus was locked down, cutting it off from the outside world. Information trickled out via Twitter, but the tag #VirginiaTech was soon flooded by outsiders eager to voice their…
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The Belly of the Beast: Chapter 4
[Editor’s Note: [REDACTED]’s harrowing tales continue. To catch up, find previous chapters here: Chapter 1, Chapter 2, Chapter 3] We drank and I kept silent until Tom peeped up, asking me, “So how are you going to do it?” “Well,” I answered, “first we need to obtain a writ of habeas corpus from an appellate…
