Tag: Gun Safety

How I Realized Black & Latino Men Can Make Guns With Their Minds | The Blinker

As tightly as I close my eyes and clench my fists, as hard as I wish for it, I can’t seem to materialize a gun.

The way Michael Bloomberg spoke about it, the way the NYT, the WSJ, the NYDN, and the Gothamist write about it, the way Ray Kelly handled it and the way his successor briefs us on it, I was under the impression that any Black or Latino male having reached puberty but under the age of 25 could immediately wish a gun into their hands. Yet as hard as I try, that doesn’t seem to be happening.