Negative Space: at risk
- Militia in the Hood
- “My father saw a high correlation between responsible gun ownership and responsible citizenship. He viewed people he would meet in the middle of the night wearing pajamas and carrying guns just because there might be a problem as people he could count on for any problem.”
- Racism and Gun Control
- Minorities and the underclass will always be the first victims of gun control.
- Woman to Woman
- “Woman to woman, I say, the cops aren’t around to defend us. Men aren’t around to defend us. We have to do the job ourselves, always have. My mother carried a pistol her whole life, as her mother did before her, and her mother before her. I carry my grandmother’s pistol with pride.”
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- Gun Control and Economic Discrimination
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“While melting-point legislation prevents many of the nation’s poorer citizens from legally protecting themselves, no convincing factual, public policy, or legal arguments justify this outcome. Preventing those who have a legal right to protect themselves with a handgun from doing so on the basis of socioeconomic considerations simply cannot be the solution… A compelling argument can be made that melting-point laws (1) are arbitrary in determining which handguns they ultimately remove from the market; (2) may have a negative effect on the ability of the police to track down criminals through the use of ballistics tests; (3) do not…
