A pre-pilot will start on 1 January 2012. Pre-pilot means that it will be small and there will be modest human intervention just to see children's reactions in order to better design the real, hands-off, dropping-out-of-the-sky format.
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The danger of colour stereotypes by @BoltCallum - 5 views
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"Colours promote such emotion and are attributed to everything we see every day. Children are taught from a very young age that the sky and the ocean are blue, the grass and leaves are green, that the sun, sand and sunflowers are yellow and the night is black. But I ask you, how often have you looked at the ocean and seen green, not blue or looked up into the branches and seen a selection of oranges, yellows, browns and reds not a blanket of green. I am not suggesting that we shouldn't teach children these colour clichés, at a young age they are their first experiences of colour and form the bases of many of their first art pieces."
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Livescribe :: Never Miss A Word - 4 views
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You can write with this pen and it will post the notes to evernote automatically. Really cool.
Flights interactive: see the planes in the sky right now | Environment | theguardian.com - 59 views
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I want to give poor children computers and walk away - opinion - 14 December 2011 - New... - 6 views
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Can tablet computers "parachuted" into remote areas transform childhood learning, asks Nicholas Negroponte .. One Laptop per Child (OLPC), even after giving out nearly 3 million laptops, is still criticised along the following lines: "Negroponte believes that you can give a child a laptop and walk away." Whether I ever believed that or not is now secondary. It became such a refrain that I finally asked myself about a year ago: "What if you could?"
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Sea and Sky - Explore the Oceans Below and the Skies Above - 103 views
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Astronomy night is coming up soon, visit this great website for resources.
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Colleges Can Still Save Themselves. Here's How. - Commentary - The Chronicle of Higher ... - 37 views
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disruption that technology has inflicted on the retail sector over the past decade is often used to illustrate what is about to happen in higher education.
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institutions rarely introduce the sometimes radical changes they need to make, because one group of constituents believes the sky will fall tomorrow anyway, while others refuse to acknowledge that this time is different.
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question is whether institutions will quicken their pace of change to lower their costs and better serve the changing educational needs of students and the global economy.
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moving away from a one-size-fits-all system, in which students largely follow the same calendar and curriculum on their way to collecting 120 credits for a bachelor's degree
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More of the decisions colleges make about their direction must be rooted in data.
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Now the data exist to track students, the classes they took, how they performed, and their outcomes after graduation—all of which can inform decisions.
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There's No Place Like Home - 22 views
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This is literally two sentences. I found it very difficult to read through the first one... as it was itself one whole paragraph
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And it is distressing to come home and not know where I am
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Superimposed over that geography, like a Jackson Pollock painted on a fishnet, is the geography of a man’s life, the griefs and pleasures of various streets,
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We attended church at the Grace & Truth Gospel Hall on 14th Avenue South, where a preacher clutched his suspenders and spoke glowingly of Eternity, and I grew up one of the Brethren, the Chosen to whom God had vouchsafed the Knowledge of All Things that was denied to the great and mighty. The Second Coming was imminent, we would rise to the sky. We walked around Minneapolis carefully, wary of television, dance music, tobacco, baubles, bangles, flashy cars, liquor, the theater, the modern novel—all of them tempting us away from the singular life that Jesus commanded us to lead.
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What did he get from this? How has he lived his life based on this childhood staple?
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There were the neon lights of Hennepin Avenue and the promise of naked girls at the Alvin Theater, which our family passed on Sunday morning on our way to church, but that was lost on me, a geek with glasses, pressed pants, plaid shirt, a boy for whom dating girls was like exploring the Amazon—interesting idea, but how to get there? Writing for print, on the other hand—why not? And then came the beautiful connection: You write for print, it impresses girls, they might want to go on dates with you.
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For days after Frankie drowned, I visited the death scene, trying to imagine what had happened. He was paddling a boat near the shore, and it capsized, and he drowned. I imagined this over and over, imagined myself saving him, imagined the vast gratitude of his family. I don’t recall discussing this with other boys. We were more interested in what lay ahead in seventh grade, where (we had heard) you had to take showers after gym. Naked. With no clothes on. Which turned out to be true. Junior high was up the West River Road in Anoka, the town where I was born, 1942, in a house on Ferry Street, delivered by Dr. Mork. That fall of seventh grade, he listened to my heart and heard a click in the mitral valve, which meant I couldn’t play football, so I walked into the Anoka Herald and asked for a job covering football and basketball, and a man named Warren Feist said yes and made me a professional writer. Ask and ye shall receive.
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down to work at 4 a.m. to do the morning shift on KSJN in a basement studio on Wabasha and then a storefront on Sixth Street, the house where I lived next to Luther Seminary and the backyard parties with musicians that inspired A Prairie Home Companion at Macalester College, the dramatic leap to home ownership on Cathedral Hill in St. Paul, where I’ve lived most of the last 20 years, where you drive up from I-94 past Masqueray’s magnificent cathedral, whose great dome and towers and arches give you a momentary illusion of Europe, and up Summit and the mansions of 19th-century grandees and pooh-bahs in a ward that votes about 85 percent Democratic today.
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Pride goeth before a fall, so deprecate yourself before others do the job for you
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I drive down Seventh Street to a Twins game and pass the old Dayton’s department store (Macy’s now but still Dayton’s to me), where in my poverty days I shoplifted an unabridged dictionary the size of a suitcase, and 50 years later I still feel the terror of walking out the door with it under my jacket, and I imagine the cops arresting my 20-year-old self and what 30 days in the slammer might’ve done for me
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She was a suicide 28 years ago, drowned with rocks in her pockets, and I still love her and am not over her death, nor do I expect ever to be.
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“There’s no point in a bunch of rubberneckers standing around gawking.”
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That’ll be the day, when you say goodbye / oh, that’ll be the day, when you make me cry,”
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She says, “Tell me a funny story”—my daughter who never had to fight for a seat. I say, “So ... there were these two penguins standing on an ice floe,” and she says, “Tell the truth,” so I say, “I like your ponytail. You know, years ago I wore my hair in a ponytail. Not a big ponytail. A little one. I had a beard too.” And she looks at me. “A ponytail? Are you joking?
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Neave Planetarium - Interactive star map and virtual sky - 78 views
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A superb real time flash planetarium. View the stars from any position on Earth. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science
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dotEPUB - download any webpage as an e-book - 125 views
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The suburb of Saffron Park lay on the sunset side of London, as red and ragged as a cloud of sunset. It was built of a bright brick throughout; its sky-line was fantastic, and even its ground plan was wild. It had been the outburst of a speculative builder, faintly tinged with art, who called its architecture sometimes Elizabethan and sometimes Queen Anne, apparently under the impression that the two sovereigns were identical. It was described with some justice as an artistic colony, though it never in any definable way produced any art. But although its pretensions to be an intellectual centre were a little vague, its pretensions to be a pleasant place were quite indisputable. The stranger who looked for the first time at the quaint red houses could only think how very oddly shaped the people must be who could fit in to them. Nor when he met the people was he disappointed in this respect. The place was not only pleasant, but perfect, if once he could regard it not as a deception but rather as a dream. Even if the people were not "artists," the whole was nevertheless artistic. That young man with the long, auburn hair and the impudent face-that young man was not really a poet; but surely he was a poem. That old gentleman with the wild, white beard and the wild, white hat-that venerable humbug was not really a philosopher; but at least he was the cause of philosophy in others. That scientific gentleman with the bald, egg-like head and the bare, bird-like neck had no real right to the airs of science that he assumed. He had not discovered anything new in biology; but what biological creature could he have discovered more singular than himself? Thus, and thus only, the whole place had properly to be regarded; it had to be considered not so much as a workshop for artists, but as a frail but finished work of art. A man who stepped into its social atmosphere felt as if he had stepped into a written comedy. -
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Interactive 3D model of Solar System Planets and Night Sky - 13 views
Photopic Sky Survey - 48 views
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Is Google Making Us Stupid? - Magazine - The Atlantic - 48 views
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I think we forget to ADD our knowledge to the "great database" in the sky. Maybe our curriculum needs more of this?
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Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes
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media are not just passive channels of information. They supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought
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chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation
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Another challenge and another reason to totally re-haul the way curriculum is developed and delivered.
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""Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?" So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene toward the end of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Bowman, having nearly been sent to a deep-space death by the malfunctioning machine, is calmly, coldly disconnecting the memory circuits that control its artificial " brain. "Dave, my mind is going," HAL says, forlornly. "I can feel it. I can feel it." "
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UK school children given unique chance to create animated characters for TV series via ... - 4 views
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"The team at Night Zookeeper is delighted to be giving primary school children across the UK a unique opportunity to use a new (and free!) website to create characters for a soon-to-launch animated TV series in a world first."
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Gun Culture Is My Culture. And I Fear for What It Has Become. - The New York Times - 15 views
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Very clear imagery. He opens the essay with his personal anecdote to set the scene for this discussion. It also lets the reader know right away that he is a gun owner.
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What I was doing was perfectly legal. In North Carolina, long-gun transfers by private sellers require no background checks.
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Should this be changed to prevent criminals from buying guns from private sellers? How is something this dangerous allowed to take place?
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so long as the buyer has a purchase permit or a concealed-carry license.
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I felt uneasy
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He liked the rifle. I needed the cash. We shook hands, and off we went.
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There is rarely a moment when I’m not within reach of a firearm.
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We don’t touch the guns or draw them from their holsters. They are unseen and unspoken of, but always there.
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Rarely do we mention what we carry
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I didn’t know what I was doing, but I knew the rules: Always assume a firearm is loaded. Always keep the gun pointed in a safe direction. Know your target and what’s beyond it.
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Guns were often a bridge between father and son.
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or my family, guns had always been a means of putting food on the table. My father never owned a handgun. He kept nothing for home defense.
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had a gun put to my head
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I can remember that
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steel
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I can remember
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In the end, what happened was swept under the rug. My parents said the school was probably trying to keep the story off the news.
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surrounded myself with the people I did as a form of protection.
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I dropped to the ground as gunfire rang from a car at a bonfire party.
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I pushed friends behind the brick foundation of a house as a shootout erupted over pills. There were times when someone could have easily been shot and killed.
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his service weapon pushed into the base of my skull.
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I stood there trembling while they apologized.
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Jackson County
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I found a community that reminded me of my grandmother, where folks still kept big gardens and canned the vegetables they grew. They still filled the freezer with meat taken by rod and rifle — trout and turkey, dove and rabbit, deer, bear, anything in season.
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hared passion for wilderness and time spent in the field with gun in hand.
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Those types of things are rare now, even in places like Appalachia.
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A few weeks later, the boy took that .30-30 lever action into the field and killed his first deer with it — the same as his uncle, his grandfather and great-grandfather.
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centuries of experience gathered around the campfire each night
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the .308 blew apart the morning.
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There is a sadness that only hunters know, a moment when lament overshadows any desire for celebration
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Life is sustained by death
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the killing is not easy, nor should it be.
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would feed me for a year
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I asked if there was anything I could’ve done differently to make him more comfortable when he first approached the truck.
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He smiled and told me: “But this is South Carolina. Most every car I pull over has a gun.”
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As I headed toward the mountains, all I could think about was Philando Castile,
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situation was re
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All I could think about was how things might have been different if the
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versed and that young black state trooper with braces had been behind the wheel, a white trooper cautiously approaching the car.
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It was impossible not to recognize how gun culture reeks of privilege.
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Ruger 10/22s and Marlin Model 60s, the .22LRs
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This guy knows his guns. Even though his essay doesn't cite research, you can see his ethos through his personal experience and his use of precise jargon.
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There were always guns, but nothing like the assault weapons that line the shelves today.
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firearms whose sole purpose would be to take human life if I were left with no other choice.
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I’ve witnessed how quickly a moment can turn to a matter of life and death. I live in a region where 911 calls might not bring blue lights for an hour. Whether it’s preparation or paranoia, I plan for worst-case scenarios and trust no one but myself for my survival.
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they joke about the minute hand of the doomsday clock inching closer to midnight.
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as they wait for the end of the world.
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they own them because they’re fun at the range and affordable to shoot. They use the rifles for punching paper, a few for shooting coyotes. E
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step as close to Title II of the federal Gun Control Act as legally possible without the red tape and paperwork. They fire bullets into Tannerite targets that blow pumpkins into the sky.
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None of them see a connection between the weapons they own and the shootings at Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Aurora, Orlando, Las Vegas, Parkland. They see mug shots of James Holmes, Omar Mateen, Stephen Paddock, Nikolas Cruz — “crazier than a shithouse rat,” they say. “If it hadn’t been that rifle, he’d have done it with something else.”
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They fear that what starts as an assault-weapons ban will snowball into an attack on everything in the safe.
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I understand what’s at stake
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I think about that boy picking up that AR in Cabela’s, and I’m torn between the culture I grew up with and how that culture has devolved.
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changes I know must come, changes to what types of firearms line the shelves and to the background checks and ownership requirements needed to carry one out the door.
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an unrelenting fear of what could be lost
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a subsistence culture already threatened by the loss of public land, rising costs and a widening rural-urban divide; the right of individuals to protect their own lives and the lives of their families.
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He cut a look in my direction as if I’d absolutely lost my mind.
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I’d be fine with an assault-weapons ban
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question is irrelevant, that the reason doesn’t supersede the right.
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Despite everything we have in common, despite the fact that he’s my best friend and we were going squirrel hunting in a few days, the two of us fundamentally disagree
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As sad as it is to say, the silence is easier
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there were kids on the television in the background, high school survivors who were willing to say what we are not, and I was ashamed.
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ne of those pretty, late-winter days with bluebird skies when the trees are still naked on the mountains and you can see every shadow and contour of the landscape.
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The muzzle was pointed in our direction. Ashley was terrified.
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The truth is, there are guns I feel justified in owning and guns I feel belong on battlefields.
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I know that part of what they’re missing or refusing to acknowledge is how fear ushered in this shift in gun culture over the past two decades.
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Fear is the factor no one wants to address — fear of criminals, fear of terrorists, fear of the government’s turning tyrannical and, perhaps more than anything else, fear of one another.
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I recognize this, because I recognize my own and I recognize that despite all I know and believe I can’t seem to overcome it.
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I don’t buy into that only-way-to-stop-a-bad-guy-with-a-gun-is-a-good-guy-with-a-gun bravado.
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I have no visions of being a hero. Instead, I find myself looking for where I’d run, asking myself what I would get behind. The gun is the last resort. It’s the final option when all else is exhausted.
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we walked, I could feel the pistol holstered on my side, the weight of my gun tugging at my belt. The fear was lessened by knowing that there was a round chambered, that all it would take is the downward push of a safety and the short pull of a trigger for that bullet to breathe. I felt safer knowing that gun was there.
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How does fear drive so many of us to distrust and hate our fellow Americans? How does the Gun Lobby and the NRA use this fear to their advantage? What role does fear play in racial prejudice? How do we combat and address this fear?
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Books on Clouds - 35 views
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