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@gbhnews ran a piece on a Massachusetts gun class that was packed with new shooters, and the people in the room were not who the standard narrative would predict. A woman with PTSD around guns who said she never thought she would want one. A trans person who said they feel like they are firmly within the crosshairs of the current administration. People who do not buy their kids toy guns. People who watched what happened in Minnesota and decided they were not going to be unprepared if it happened near them.

Every one of them said some version of the same thing, which is that they are scared, they do not fully trust the government to protect them, and they would rather have the license and the training and decide later about the gun than wait until they need it and have neither.

People opposed to this are going to have to grapple with the pattern at some point. When people feel unsafe, they buy guns. Conservatives buy guns in record numbers when a democrat is in office because they always fear confiscation, and what is happening now is no different in principle. If you do not want people to buy guns, the answer is to create conditions that make them feel safer, not to lecture them about why their fear is the wrong kind of fear.

The interesting part is that the same people who spent the last decade insisting that fear-driven gun buying was irrational and dangerous when conservatives did it are now doing the exact thing they criticized, and the framing has quietly shifted from “this is hysteria” to “this is reasonable preparation.” We're not here to criticize folks for having a shift in perspective, we just hope this perspective is maintained across elections.

Armed minorities are harder to oppress, and that has always been true regardless of which administration is in office. by @thedonfirearms

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The More You Know The More You Will Understand 🔥 #itslitpodcast #itslit #fyp #foryoupage #itslitpod #itslitboston #boston #personalgrowth #thedonfirearms taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @thedonfirearms

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Teacher during the week, Weekend Warrior Tactician on the weekends. by @thedonfirearms

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“[The knife] nicked me in the hand, shoulder, and the neck,” said Walsh. At the hospital, doctors told Noah Walsh that the knife missed his jugular vein by 1 millimeter.”

It’s a total myth that self-defenders in our state (and other states like it) are “set up for failure” by the courts. If that’s what you FEEL, get over it. It’s just not true.

We’re taking a page out of @rob_assetsonly’s book on this one. Get educated. Stay healthy. Train regularly. Be an asset, not a liability. 💪🏽

#train #prepare #protect #doitright #doitoften taken in Massachusetts by @thedonfirearms

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Daily equipment. Get to work! by @thedonfirearms

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The grind don’t stop. by @thedonfirearms

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It’s 🎃 Season already. by @thedonfirearms

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In New England, firearm homicide runs from 0.8 per 100,000 in New Hampshire, graded F by Giffords, to 1.9 in Connecticut, graded A, and in Vermont, graded B-minus. Across the states, poverty tracks firearm homicide at about 0.7, and the link with gun-law strength disappears once poverty is accounted for.

RAND rates specific laws, like child-access prevention and background checks, and I go through what those laws do in Massachusetts. Baltimore’s homicides dropped 23 percent in 2024, and New York’s shootings fell for a third straight year.

Next: Part 5, the process and grandfather clauses.

Narration is an AI voice made from my own voice.
Every source is on one page, and the book behind the argument is The Original Power. Scan the QR code at the end of the video.
Original reel: a joint collab post by Harvard’s Eye, Gov. Maura Healey, Team Healey-Driscoll, Yes on 9, Yes for a Safe MA, and Hood News. taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @thedonfirearms

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Where do shootings come from? Neighborhood disadvantage is one of the strongest predictors of gun violence exposure. Lead exposure has been tied to crime in decades of research, though the size of the effect is argued over and no one has isolated it for firearm homicide alone.

In Boston from 2019 to 2025, the areas the 1938 redlining map graded C and D have about seven times the shooting rate of the areas graded A and B. The data can’t separate the map from the poverty and disinvestment that followed it.

Next: Part 4, what works.

Narration is an AI voice made from my own voice.
Every source is on one page, and the book behind the argument is The Original Power. Scan the QR code at the end of the video.
Original reel: a joint collab post by Harvard’s Eye, Gov. Maura Healey, Team Healey-Driscoll, Yes on 9, Yes for a Safe MA, and Hood News.

#Question9 #Massachusetts #MassPolitics #GunLaws taken in Boston, Massachusetts by @thedonfirearms

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More added to the frontlines! 🫡💯🇺🇸 by @thedonfirearms

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That big boi can still move them lil legs 🏃🏾 💨 💨 by @thedonfirearms

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The right tools ⚒️ for the job! 🎯 💨 💨 💨 Some simple math and then send it! 🏁⚔️🏁

Ruger Precision 6.5 Creedmoor
Preece Precision Stringer
Leupold Mark 5HD Tremor 3
Hornady ELD Match 147g by @thedonfirearms

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