Gun Violence in America: A Cultural History
Historical Blindness
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The Racest Origins of Gun Control
Gun rights used to be a racial justice issue, but now gun control is gun right's proponents who raise the issue of the racest origins of gun control. No legislation to disarm some races and not others is proposed by advocates of stricter gun control. We don't fight systemic racism by refusing to pass necessary laws for fear they will be inequitably imposed. Rather, we fight it by exposing and correcting the inequities themselves.
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