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This is Cognitive Dissence.

Every episode we blasts anyone who gets in our way.

We bring critical thinking, skepticism, and irreverence to any topic that makes the news,

makes it big or makes us mad it's skeptical it's political and there is no welcome at today is thursday i'd say about the 19th give or take

sounds good and we're doing a little long formform action here today. An article from Slate,

Cecil sends me the articles to choose from. I took a look at this one. I took a look at the

articles. And I immediately wanted to do this one because this is something that's been on my

mind personally so much over the last few months. I've been thinking so much about it.

So I want to kind of share this with the

audience. So this story is called My Gun and Me. If you had told me this urban progressive lesbian

10 years ago that I'd own a gun, I would have laughed in your face. Now I can't let my weapon

to go and I'm far from alone. It's a really interesting article told from a perspective that a lot of people don't hear,

right?

A queer woman is telling a story about her perspective on how guns both make her feel unsafe and make

her feel safe.

Yeah.

This whole article is literally, there are show, it's cognitive distance.

The whole article is just feeling uncomfortable about this thing

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