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Disproportionately who is more often the target of the firearms globally as well as domestically? Who do we think of when we think of the “armed citizen” that the NRA has been celebrating for approximately a century? Who are those heroic armed citizens that we picture when we imagine the good citizenship of self-care that involves firearms? We are literally killing ourselves in this nation because of our love affair with these firearms and the mythology that they're going to make us safer.

Caroline Light joins us to discuss her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of America’s Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense. A 10th anniversary edition with a new introduction and a preface by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz is now available from Beacon Press. 

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Nov 24 2020