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According to a report from The Tampa Free Press this month, there are now 1,930 counties – roughly sixty-one percent of total counties in the United States – that are considered safe spaces for firearms owners, and more than half of those (1,137 in total) have passed Second Amendment Sanctuary laws. Many of the other aforementioned counties are in the twenty-one states that have adopted Constitutional Carry laws, which allow gun owners to carry a concealed weapon without a permit.

“Cancel culture” has claimed many victims this year. Actress Gina Carano was fired from the hit Disney+ series The Mandalorian for then-recent comments she made on social media. Meanwhile, Teen Vogue’s brand-new editor Alexi McCammond had to immediately resign for social media posts from a decade earlier when she herself was a teenager. Books by Dr. Seuess have been pulled from shelves for questionably insensitive content, and even queen of nice Ellen DeGeneres found herself in the crosshairs for apparently not actually being nice all the time to employees.

Now it seems that lawmakers in New York State have given final approval to legislation that could allow civil lawsuits to be brought against gun makers and dealers. The measure, if signed by Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo, would make the Empire State the first to allow civil suits against firearms companies. It would circumvent the federal law that offers legal immunity to the firearms industry by amending state nuisance law.