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Me, my liberal wife and what happened when we went to a gun range

THERE ARE PLENTY OF PEOPLE MY LOVELY WIFE Cassandra rants against—some of whom don’t even live in our house. But the ones who get it worst are gun owners. Having grown up in a rural, gun-loving town, she finds the preppers and vigilantes to be self-heroizing macho bullies who, now that I type this sentence, I am worried she’s secretly attracted to.

Still, it was surprising that the week Donald Trump won the election, an event you

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