Jim Neel

WE DARE DEFEND OUR RIGHTS: The Gun Show

53 incidents of gunfire on school grounds in 2019 alone. Each year, of the 15,600 children between birth and nineteen years of age treated for gunshot wounds, nearly 1300 do not survive.

Gun collectors often describe the Colt Python 357 Magnum revolver as the perfect revolver. My brother owned one, but it isn’t the gun that killed him. No, that was a 9mm Smith and Wesson with a design defect. But, “guns do not kill people, people kill people”, right? Well, no. What really killed him was the false narrative of self-protection perpetuated by the gun manufacturers and its lobby, the National Rifle Association. For every criminal stopped by a firearm thirty-four innocent Americans die from gunfire.

Because I Could Not Stop for Death, 2016
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