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If You Happen to Shoot Someone Who's Unarmed, Just Call This Handy NRA Hotline
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For decades, the gun lobby has facilitated concealed carry and “stand your ground” legislation in large part by focusing on the racialized threat of lurking criminals or rapists. Today, as the number of states with stand your ground laws grows and the president himself is set to deliver a keynote address, that anxiety is being funneled into the fear of going to court—or being jailed—for killing someone when you shoot them. (Over the last five years, however, studies have shown that the best indicators of whether your self-defense argument will keep you out of prison are generally your gender and the color of your skin.) |
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dasing
(4/28/2017)
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| WRONG!!! |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(4/28/2017)
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| Thanks for the tip. |
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