How race cases win gun rights
How race cases win gun rights Clarence Page , The Detroit News letters@detnews.com Lobbyists for gun possession owe black Americans a historical debt of gratitude. The Supreme Court reminds us of this debt in its recent decision to overturn Chicago's sweeping prohibition of firearm possession. The high court decision rests on more than the Second Amendment. It also rests on the 14th Amendment, which brought equal protections under law to freed slaves after the Civil War. How times do change. An amendment that helped blacks to protect themselves from Ku Klux Klan terrorists now is being used to help protect a black Chicago man from local gangbangers. Como cambian los tiempos! Una enmienda que le ayudó a los afroamericanos a protegerse de terroristas del Ku Klux Klan es ahora usada para proteger a un afroamericano de Chicago de los pandilleros locales. That was why Otis McDonald, 76, said he needed a gun to protect himself in his gang-troubled South Side neighborhood. In a 5-4 deci...

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