By Leonard Greene NY Daily News
America would have tighter gun laws in 24 hours if every black person in America went out and bought a firearm.
In fact, black people wouldn't even have to purchase the guns. All we would need to do is fill out the gun license applications and get background checks.
Lawmakers would be passing stricter gun laws quicker than you can say bump stock.
That's the evil attachment Las Vegas madman Stephen Paddock used to legally turn his semi-automatic weapon into a rapid-fire killing machine when he unloaded Sunday on a crowd of country music concertgoers, killing nearly 60 outside his Las Vegas hotel.
In the days since, the White House has reaffirmed its commitment to the Second Amendment.
But how quickly would that change if black people started exercising their Second Amendment rights, and took advantage of ridiculous open carry laws?
Elected officials would amend the Constitution in a heartbeat, because nothing would scare America more than the thought of a heavily armed black population.
Not a credit card data breach.
Not North Korean nukes.
And, nothing, not even holding a gun to their heads, would move members of Congress to pass meaningful gun control faster than a flood of applications from black people threatening to stockpile weapons of their own.
I call it the Hotel Pool Theory.
Not long ago, racist white people were so against swimming with blacks that many hotel owners shut down their swimming pools rather than desegregate their facilities.
Likewise, Republican senators, and even the National Rifle Association for that matter, aren't about to stand around and let law-abiding black people have equal access to guns.
Not under today's laws, where restrictions are so lax you can practically buy a gun out of a vending machine or get one free with a gas station fill-up.
According to the Congressional Research Service, there are already more guns in the United States than there are people.
What we need are stricter laws, and legislation that would outlaw bump stocks instead of imposing “additional regulations” as the NRA suggests.
Applications from African-Americans and background checks on black buyers would be more than enough to scare lawmakers into action.
Source: NY DAILY NEWS
