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This collection is sponsored by The Solution Is Us, a community group seeking to shift the narrative of guns in the United States, so they can keep kids from being shot to death.

Community, Places and Environment, Stories About Guns

The Mass Murder Pandemic

Lucien Roberts Jul 13

I want to talk about fishing with dynamite and hunting wild game with assault weapons. Both seem like good ways to level the playing field. However, the former is illegal in Virginia; the latter is ...

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Community, Places and Environment, Stories About Guns, Stories of Reflection

It Was Just A Matter of Time

James Warren Aug 27

I couldn’t sleep last night. Three days ago, Jacob Blake was shot. And as you know by now, I need time to process things when Black people get shot or killed by police. Because I ...

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Safety First

Community Curator Feb 18

As a retired Law Enforcement Officer [LEO] and a Life Member of America’s oldest (since 1871) operating Civil Rights Organization, the National Rifle Association [NRA] I’d say I am interested in firearms safety. I recall ...

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Plan B

Community Curator Feb 18

We’d always had handguns at Mom’s house and Dad’s house. They kept them unloaded and securely locked in their safes. There was no mystery or excitement about them. In fact, they seemed rather useless because ...

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An Influenced Encounter

Andy Sitison Feb 14

In the mid 1990’s, I was iterating my routine of driving a needy Datsun 2000 to the auto parts store in Durham, NC. to get the “part of the week”. The city of Durham was ...

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