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The Virtue of Gun Ownership and the Decline of Manliness

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The Virtue of Gun Ownership and the Decline of Manliness
Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of a mass shooting at a King Soopers grocery store in Boulder, Colo., on March 25, 2021. The Monday shooting left ten people dead, including one police officer. Chet Strange/Getty Images
Josh Hammer
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The latest horrific mass shooting in America, this time roughly 30 miles from my Denver home, happened on March 22. Ten died, and the suspect—a Trump-hating Syrian immigrant, hardly the MAGA-hat-clad white man that the media so clearly desired—has been charged with 10 counts of first-degree murder.

Josh Hammer
Josh Hammer
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Josh Hammer is opinion editor of Newsweek, a research fellow with the Edmund Burke Foundation, counsel and policy advisor for the Internet Accountability Project, a syndicated columnist through Creators, and a contributing editor for Anchoring Truths. A frequent pundit and essayist on political, legal, and cultural issues, Hammer is a constitutional attorney by training. He hosts “The Josh Hammer Show,” a Newsweek podcast, and co-hosts the Edmund Burke Foundation's “NatCon Squad” podcast. Hammer is a college campus speaker through Intercollegiate Studies Institute and Young America's Foundation, as well as a law school campus speaker through the Federalist Society. Prior to Newsweek and The Daily Wire, where he was an editor, Hammer worked at a large law firm and clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Hammer has also served as a John Marshall Fellow with the Claremont Institute and a fellow with the James Wilson Institute. Hammer graduated from Duke University, where he majored in economics, and from the University of Chicago Law School. He lives in Florida, but remains an active member of the State Bar of Texas.
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