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and academic roxane gay, has most definitely cut through with her books, which include unflinching testimony on the impact of being raped, on fatness and the meaning of feminism. how scary is this level of self exposure? roxane gay, welcome to hardtalk. stephen, thank you for having me. well, it s a great pleasure to have you here. you ve written with extraordinary candour about your own life. i have. ..and it strikes me that writing about it presumably a solitary occupation is one thing but then, speaking about it in public is quite another. it is, it is. over the years, has the speaking about it become easier? it has. i m actually afraid of public speaking, and that s why i m a writer, and i never anticipated in my career that i would be speaking about anything in public. but the more you do something, the more habituated you get, and it does get easier and, you know, i tend to speak in front of very receptive crowds and so, that also makes it a lot easier, and i stand
about half of all u.s. households have at least one coronet home and many have much more than that. because they have ammo, billions and billions of rounds of it. those are all real numbers for hardly an argument for gun control. it s an argument effect against it. ask yourself what it would required to confiscate all those guns and other ammunition entering the united states into a disarmed nation with turkmenistan or north korea. it would take a police state an end in civil war. no same person wants either one of those things. but thankfully we do not eat them. the fact that so many americans have a firearm with her and can never commit violence tells you that guns are not the problem. most people in this country can t be trusted with an ar-15, just as we can contrast it with cars, and light in and light in a car for electricity and baseball bats and insecticide and chainsaws and pruning shears and countless other objects that can easily double as weapons. on some level, al
with their high-powered rifles to protect you? here s the response from his office. quote, we don t comment on that as related to the prime minister of security. so in other words the people in power get to keep the guns, people lose theirs. in this country, unlike canada, we have a second amendment, you d like to think that you would be protected with your second amendment from your guns and be able to have a gun. politicians who want to suspend your civil liberties while you have a second amendment wouldn t be able to do, but the bill of rights is just words on a paper without a government that cares about protecting your rights. you lose your rights and that s what s happening right now. this week, jay insley, governor of washington still, signed a law banning semiautomatic rifles when which he called assault weapons. watch how he justified the massive move. there is no reason for their use in the state of washington. no one needs an ar-15 to protect your family. the you