For starters, I didn’t know that guns are a white male obsession.
If they are, as activist Shaun King posits, perhaps he could explain the Bureau of Justice Statistics data showing that 93% of the 7,999 black shooting deaths in 2005 were at the hands of fellow blacks.
But I’m getting ahead of myself. King, a de facto leader of the Black Lives Matter movement, spewed out a torrent of tweets Saturday on why white men are so fixated on guns.
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What set King off was this tweet by Red State’s Erick Erickson in reaction to the New York Times’s front page editorial on “the gun epidemic,” its first since 1920:
https://twitter.com/EWErickson/status/673203319528116224
It’s hard to know whether King was more exercised over Erickson’s literal or metaphorical shooting of holes into the editorial, but here are some of his ruminations:
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/673216256913367040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/673216694832209920?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/673217530840879109?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/673218574132101120?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
For what it’s worth, King is a columnist for New York’s Daily News, which has had a very stressful, if revealing, week.
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