James Finn
May 23, 2023

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"I wants mah FREEDOM!" demands the white man with an AR-15 and 300 armor-piercing rounds slung over his shoulder. (In Texas, you can walk down the street like that, and gun rights nuts do so, in residential neighborhoods to make a point, daring police to do anything about it.)

"Freedom from what, to do what?" asks Jane Q Public, perplexed.

"To own mah God given guns and mow me down a terrorist or a Black person puttin his grubby paws on MAH STUFF!"

"But mass shooters have machine guns too. They look just like you. They have machine guns because you demand they be allowed to have them."

"What are you? Some Commie Pinko? I wants MAH FREEDOM!"

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James Finn
James Finn

Written by James Finn

James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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