Syria, USA

Barry Dredze
5 min readMay 28, 2020
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“An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” (Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond This Horizon)

And now African-Americans with guns have created a presence in the suburban Atlanta neighborhood where Aumaud Arbery was shot and killed while jogging in broad daylight by a retired cop and his son. And armed African-Americans needed to escort Democratic lawmakers to the Capitol building in…

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Barry Dredze

Just another mortal, tweaking my cognitive map on the fly.