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Gun Nuts Are a Threat to Democracy: How Open Carry Undermines Open Debate

DUCK!

You can’t have open debate or free exercise of religion with a barrel pointed at your head, like the crazies who surround a Texas mosque or the white supremacists who popped off at Black Lives Matter.

“Our founding fathers understood that the guys with the guns make the rules.”

Those were the words of Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president for life at the National Rifle Association and a sputtering rageaholic.

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