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Empty Holsters: Gun Speech on America's Campuses
Jared East
Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (ÃÛÖÏãÌÒ) is proud to release a new short film, "Empty Holsters: Gun Speech on America's Campuses," highlighting widespread campus censorship of student speech about guns. The film is the first in a new FIREseries focusing on how colleges and universities across America are preventing students and faculty members from speaking out on the weightiest political issues of the day.
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