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Arms and the American West

I was 14 years old when I first shot a gun. My family and I were at the local rod and gun club and I had just received my first gun safety lesson from an instructor. With my junior NRA rifle handbook under my arm, I took the .22 rifle that my dad had given me and went to the range. There were some boys there that I knew, also shooting, and I was vaguely interested in one of them. I took my first shots at the target.

Trump’s Unpredictability Doctrine

Emma Ashford does a fine job summing up the flaws in Trump’s handling of foreign policy issues:

Indeed, it is nearly impossible to tell whether he actually believes these statements, or is simply monumentally ill-informed. Based on his comments to the Washington Post, Trump is apparently unaware of European sanctions on Russia, of the fact that Iran and ISIS oppose each other, and believes that America’s GDP is “essentially zero.”

Underground Railroad For Muslim Women?

I need your help, readers. Well, it’s not me, but it’s a young woman from a Muslim country who is here in the US on a visa. Her family has decided that she must return and enter into an arranged marriage. She doesn’t want to do this. The family’s relatives in the US are threatening to kill her if she doesn’t do the will of her family. She is terrified, and doesn’t know what to do.

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