As a young black man, RJ Young grew up with a healthy distrust of guns, but when he married into a family deeply immersed in gun culture, he knew he was going to have to learn about them to relate into his new family. Today, Young is a certified NRA pistol instructor...who doesn't carry a gun, and his understanding of how gun culture exploits white fears about blacks that fuels black fears about whites is at the heart of his new book, "Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns." The book is a combination memoir and study of America's recent obsession with guns and how race plays a major factor. Young now says he would rather die a victim of gun violence than to shoot back.
Let It Bang: A Young Black Man's Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns
