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Stand Your Ground: A Black Feminist Reckoning with America’s Gun Problem
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Linda
Aug 07, 2024 rated it it was amazing
Roxane Gay's thoughts about being a gun owner. She was urged by a brother to get one. Eventually she did despite holding gun ownership views usually associated with liberals.
Her views now are more mixed. She documents stories where people were not protected by having a gun. In fact, the ones she listed were all black people shot by police despite the gun owner making or taking no threatening positions against the law.
I really appreciated the dichotomy of her feelings and views, essentially holdi
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