The White To Bear Arms
December, 2007
GUN CONTROL TAKES AIM ONLY AT BLACKSI can't see why white people are so scared of blacks with guns," says Byron Crawford, my hip-hop blogger friend in St. Louis. "You white people pack more heat than a fat man's crotch." As a redneck raised in the Blue Ridge Mountain gun culture, I'd never thought of white people as particularly heavily armed. But Crawford isn't wrong. Half of American households have at leastmodern times they have masqueraded as gun-safety legislation: As Crawfor...