Race and Gun Laws by Lossie Hudspeth (4th Period)

Many Americans love the fact that we have a right to bear arms and to defend our household or country whenever threatened. Yet many of those rules are very gender biased, mainly because they weren't written with "everyone" in mind. Yes it is true that mainly all of our rights were written by white slave owners. So when the majority of America's "gun slinging advocates" in the media are Anglo, where does that leave the African American population? With most of the news today focused on gun laws and racism, those who want gun laws to be restricted are surprisingly not the victims of race. African Americans were among the first group of people to truly adapt and accept the gun laws. It was the Anglo American group (specifically the KKK) that imposed restrictions to whom can carry a gun. It's hard to think that what we associate today with restriction on gun laws is to prevent the idea of racial profiling, was used to promote exactly just that. After reading the Gun Law Article comment your opinion as to why exactly we want to enforce stricter gun laws today. 

by Lossie Hudspeth