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Open Carry Activists At Protests: Good Or Bad?

No matter what your opinion of firearms in general is, the timeless saying that “The Second Amendment puts the teeth in the First Amendment” is true.

by Justin King

Liberal Gun Owners Exist, But Most Aren’t Big Fans Of The NRA

Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has surprised many on the left by supporting gun ownership, but he reflects the diversity of Second Amendment supporters.

Liberal Gun Owners Exist, But Most Aren’t Big Fans Of The NRA

MINNEAPOLIS --- The popular modern image painted by the mainstream media of a gun owner is conservative, to say the least, and epithets like “gun nut” and “right-winger” often follow when guns are mentioned in many liberal outlets. The reality of gun ownership in America is more diverse, although the National Rifle Association isn’t promoting that

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Gun-Friendly Georgia Gets Even Gun-Friendlier

Ahead of this year’s elections, Georgia’s governor signs a bill expanding the state’s “Stand Your Ground” law and loosening concealed carry restrictions.

Gun-Friendly Georgia Gets Even Gun-Friendlier

In 2010, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports, Georgia had the seventh-highest number of gun murders in the United States. On average, there is a gun murder every 20 hours in the state, per the Center for American Progress. Despite what

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Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese

Frederick Reese is lead staff writer for Mint Press specializing in race, poverty, congressional oversight and technology. An award winning data journalist and creative writer for over 15 years, Frederick has written about and worked for social advocacy projects and personal awareness efforts. Frederick is a jack-of-all-trades, with work experience as a teacher, a pastry chef and a story writer. Frederick has publication credits with Yahoo!, B. Couleur, and more. A native New Yorker, Frederick graduated from Colgate University in 1999 and Johnson & Wales University in 2003. Frederick started his journalistic career writing for his university’s newspaper, “The Colgate Maroon-News,” before starting and heading his own magazine, “The Idealist.” Most recently, Frederick received a data journalism award from the International Center for Journalists for his minimum wage coverage for MintPress. Follow Frederick on Twitter: @frederickreese

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America The Fearful

A notion of ‘liberty’ doused in fear, mistrust and guns is creating a tyranny of insecurity and division.

America The Fearful

One truism in America’s longstanding debate over guns and the meaning of the Second Amendment is that a well-armed populace is a final deterrent to tyrannical government. As evidence for this, the trope of the colonial Minutemen rushing out to defend Lexington and Concord from the perfidious British is continually trotted out to prove

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Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Jeffrey Cavanaugh

Jeffrey Cavanaugh is a Mint Press political analyst and columnist specializing in international relations and US policy. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations, specializing in International Security and Conflict. He has worked as a political science and public administration lecturer at Mississippi State University. Cavanaugh also writes about farm politics and policy, where his work has appeared in agriculture news publications in Illinois.

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