BBC How the civil rights movement changed black gun culture

[YubaRiver]

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26582811

"But Nicholas Johnson, a law professor at Fordham University in New York City, says black Americans have a long, positive history with guns. Firearms, he says, helped black Americans escape slavery, defend their homes and fight for their freedom. It was only after the civil rights movement that the public attitude towards guns started to change."

[morfeeis]

I just blame LBJ for everything.

[triggatronic]

Currently reading "Negroes and the Gun: The Black Tradition of Arms." Not bad so far.