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Guns to Garden Tools: A New National Movement Takes Root in the Borderlands

What about more community gardens to reduce both guns and food insecurity?

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Melissa del Bosque
May 31, 2022
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A tray of seedlings (Getty Images)

Two mass shootings in two border communities—one in Uvalde, Texas, and the other in Buffalo, New York. Both perpetrated by teenage boys with assault rifles.

Two more mass shootings in America. In the borderlands we feel it acutely. There are more gun stores per square mile, along with more layers of armed agents and poli…

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