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Home On the Range
2014 Column Contest Winner
Robert Lawrence is a long-time gun owner and former NRA member who received toy pistols, rifles, and even rocket launchers as a kid, but now sees his own kids banning toy guns from their children’s gift lists. A couple of years ago when a shooting range promotion coincided with a free concealed-carry licensing class, he and his wife found themselves propelled into Gun Mania culture and questioning everything about their roles in it. He recounts the stops along their journey here.
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September 25, 2015Home On the Range: Shooting Dirt
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August 28, 2015Home On the Range: Abortion Control
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August 10, 2015Home On the Range: Envisioning Enemies
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July 22, 2015Home On the Range: Shooting Holes in an Old Idea
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June 24, 2015Home On the Range: The NRA Was Here—Until It Wasn’t
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June 3, 2015Home On the Range: Coming In Heavy
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May 12, 2015Home On the Range: Assaulting Misconceptions
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April 20, 2015Home On the Range: An Arsenal of Weapons
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March 31, 2015Home On the Range: Brother, Can You Spare an Individual Bullet to Stop a Collective Tyrant?
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March 10, 2015Home On the Range: The Educated States of Jesusland
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February 18, 2015Home On the Range: Smiling for the Gun Board
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January 28, 2015Home On the Range: Gundamentalism
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