My new column for Reason.com summarizes the 20th century history of blacks using firearms to protect their communities from white rioters. Black self-defense was explicitly approved by leaders such as W.E.B. DuBois, A. Philip Randolph, Roger Wilkins, Daisy Bates — and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Also recently published in Reason.com is a review of Abigail A. Kohn’s book “Shooters: Myths and Realities of America’s Gun Cultures.” Kohn is an anthropologist who compares and contrasts the gun cultures of California and Australia. The review is written by my summer intern from 2004, Eric Dzinski.
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