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Guns

Jul 28, 2016Toby TompkinsEssays

GUNS The motto of New Hampshire, where I spend some of my time, is “Live Free Or Die,” and a significant number of its residents are rabid anti-Federalists, hence ferocious upholders of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. They tend to forget that the Amendment, drafted by the Founders not long after

Introduction

Jun 7, 2016Toby TompkinsEssays

Ever since I first learned how to string words together, I’ve enjoyed writing letters to my friends and family. When I was eleven, I was sent to camp in the North Woods of Maine, not so much for my pleasure, but because my mother and father were slashing their way through a vicious divorce that