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billh58

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2. Like all fundamentalist religions, the underlying marketing
Sun Apr 27, 2014, 09:15 PM
Apr 2014

ploy of the extremist gun religion is instilling fear in the easily influenced. The right-wing gun lobby and the NRA excel in selling raw fear, and those who tend to vote against their own interests swallow it hook, line, and sinker.

Dionne's last paragraph in the linked article is very true:

Party on, guys. I can’t wait for you to figure out the ways in which even Georgia’s law is too restrictive. In the meantime, the nation’s unarmed majority might ponder how badly we have failed in asserting our own rights.

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