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Our Panelists: Sean Gray, Mark Rob, Kyle Stormont

1. What was your first experience with firearms?

2. Will fewer guns mean less death? Will bad actors find other ways to kill if guns are restricted?

3. Would schools be safer if faculty and staff were armed?

4. Is prohibiting gun ownership consistent with the Second Amendment to the Constitution?

5. Do you believe there is an imminent threat from the United States taking your guns away?

6. While the right to bear arms is guaranteed by the Second Amendment, is it a right based on the common good for all humanity? Could we live essentially humane and fulfilled lives without the rights we have in their current configuration?

7. How does the United States compare to the rest of the world on gun safety?

8. Not up for debate is this: The United States has much, much, much more gun violence than other First World nations. Why is this?

a. What can be done about it? Should anything be done about it?

9. Are you willing to accept things staying the way they are? Or getting worse?

10. Would you vote for someone based solely on their gun control stance?

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Our Panelists: Nyci Ask, Gabrielle Moore, David Phillips

1. Before the release of the film The Birth of a Nation, had you ever heard the story of Nat Turner before? Can you recall how his story treated?

2. There seems to be a void in regards to stories about slave uprisings, with the exception of Amistad and Birth of a Nation, most slave narratives are about slaves with the heart of gold and their wicked masters and somewhere along the line, a kindly white savior. Do you think we need more films and stories about slave revolts?

3. The film isn’t necessarily historically accurate, but it makes use of certain themes that happened to many black people during slavery, not specifically to Nat Turner. For instance, instead of Nat’s family being sold away from him, they depict her being raped, setting off a chain of events that leads to the slave uprising in the film. Do you think something is lost in translation when a director opts for themes rather than accuracy, especially when dealing with a contentious issue like slavery?

4. Allegations of rape are swirling around this film and boycotts have ensued, due to the film’s writer, director, and star Nate Parker. Parker was exonerated of all charges in the matter, but the young woman in question committed suicide. There is now a tension between protesting to support women—especially black women—and supporting a story that needs to be told. How are you navigating those waters?

5. Nat Turner brutalized not just his slave masters, but also their children. MLK makes for an easier hero because of his non-violence. As does Rosa Parks. As does Medgar Evars. Even Malcolm X who championed the arming of black men and women to protect themselves is easier to stomach, because he was never actually violent himself. But Turner killed children. Do you think his willingness to kill children disqualifies him as a hero for black people?

6. Slave masters wrongly used the Bible to advocate slavery, Nat Turner used it to justify an uprising that killed men, women, and children. What are your thoughts on the interplay between invoking the name of God (specifically the Christian God), oppression, and violence?

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