Search on Google for “white supremacy” and “gun rights” and also you’ll see loads of articles claiming the Second Modification is a device for white America. However a brand new paper from Clemson College economists Michael Makowsky and Patrick Warren finds the alternative is true. They are saying gun possession helped black People defend themselves when nobody else would.

The important thing discovering of “Firearms and Lynching” is obvious: “Charges of Black lynching decreased with larger Black firearm entry” within the Jim Crow South.