“‘After I signed up to be a poll worker, the first thing I did was buy a gun’”

Amanda Sakuma
GEN
Published in
Oct 29, 2020

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Election anxiety is bringing out extreme behaviors in Americans who are prepping for the absolute worst, Andrew Jazprose Hill writes. Hill comes to this chilling realization after overhearing a poll worker say she bought a gun to protect herself on November 3. Her concerns are not isolated, given the current state of the world, but surely there must be other ways to prepare.

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Amanda Sakuma
GEN

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