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Question of the Day: Do Gated Communities Encourage Gun Control?

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As I pulled my car through my sister’s gated community I found myself under attack by a pair of armed assailants. They adopted a spray and pray approach to my seemingly harmless mini-van. Before I dove under the dash I noticed that my gun-toting wannabe bad guys were under 12. A closer look revealed their AK-47s as wooden stakes. I’d dodged a barrage of pretend bullets and (I might add) they’d dodged getting grounded by mommy and daddy. Driving away, I wondered: how safe do these suburban barons feel behind their high iron gates? Do they feel secure enough to forego gun ownership? Are gated communities the last redoubt for upper middle-class suburban gun control advocates, or does the fortress lifestyle make them more likely to tool-up?

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