How Do Guns Affect Black Lives

How do guns affect black lives? Guns affect black lives because guns are one of the reasons why the Black Lives Matter movement started. The amount of gun violence is affecting the country’s African-American population more than any other race. African-Americans are thirteen percent of the overall United States population and represent 57 percent of the victims. A report was published in the BM7 last week and it revealed how in the United States deaths are twice as high among African-Americans than whites . So many African-Americans lose their lives because of people who own guns legally and illegally. People false their background checks or go to places where the background checks aren’t as strict as others. Like Benjamin Nathaniel

There were no charges made against officer Wilson even with the suspects that claimed Michael Brown didn't do anything wrong . Police brutality has made black people take a stand and they formed the Black Lives Matter Movement.The Black Lives Matter movement started in 2012 after George Zimmerman, the neighborhood watch coordinator for the gated community, shot and killed Trayvon Martin. Following Martin’s death protests, rallies, and marches were held all across the nation. The Black Lives Matter movement includes all the ways in which black lives are less powerful at the hands of the state, it is a call for action against brutality by police and vigilantes, people who take the law into their own hands by trying to catch or punish someone in their own way. Politicians are also trying to straighten gun laws to prevent homicides like Bernie Sanders. Sanders wants stricter background checks so guns won’t be in the wrong hands. He also wants to ban assault weapons to citizens that were made to kill people. I personally think this can help improve our nation because it will give people with a criminal history less chances of owning guns but it also gives a right to people without a criminal background to be able to own guns for their own