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Pratchett on How Guns Possess Us

By Robin Bates | Published: February 5, 2024

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In Praise of an Anti-Gun Western

By Robin Bates | Published: May 18, 2012

The 1939 film “Destry Rides Again” takes a surprisingly strong stand against guns.

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Happiness Is a Warm Gun (Shoot, Shoot)

By Robin Bates | Published: February 2, 2011

Following the Columbine High School shootings, outrage against permissive gun laws led, not to tougher gun laws, but to pushback by the National Rifle Association.  The NRA went on to help George W. Bush squeak by Albert Gore in the 2000 elections and has since become so bold that the 2006 Congress was afraid to extend […]

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