A story of race, guns, and self-protection in America today, through the quest of a young black man learning to shoot a handgun to relate to his father-in-law.
...humurous and heartbreaking ... Let It Bang ends with a pair of plot twists ... a poignant illustration of the racialized fearmongering that isn’t new to Trump’s America but sure feels intensified over the past several years ... B+.
He builds a convincing case that the NRA has become predominantly concerned with protecting the Second Amendment rights of white people to protect their property against the black intruders they most fear ... Amid his reportage, his personal story—about his mixed marriage and how it played out in conservative Oklahoma, where he always felt like a minority—doesn’t hold together quite as well.
