New York Daily News

It’s simple as black & white

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America would have tighter gun laws by Monday 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 semiautoma­tic weapon into a rapid-fire killing machine when he unloaded Sunday on a crowd of country music concertgoe­rs, killing nearly 60 people 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

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