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From the nation’s beginnings, in fact and fiction, the gun has been provider and protector ... promoting such slogans as “Shooting Is Safe.” Despite its insistence that it does not directly ...

I was doing my job — working security, protecting others, making sure everyone stayed safe ... in the endless cycle of gun violence? I was supposed to be the protector, the one ensuring others ...