Claytone Cramer News Today

Despite a long Southern history of denying guns to Blacks, you are being told that North Carolina’s pistol purchase permit law does not have racist origins!?

I did not grow up around guns, and the Los Angeles Times and Mad Magazine had dutifully told me that gun owners were crazy. All that changed in the late 1970s. Like in so much of America, violent- crime rates were increasing then and peaked at about 1980. Two different couples that I knew had become victims of home invasions; both were profoundly traumatic events.

INDIANAPOLIS—Indiana is the 17th most populated state, but when it comes to gun licenses, it’s ranked 12th.

Boyd Ward's letter criticizing us for writing about knife laws on Feb. 20 gave us a graceful opportunity to make a correction.