RJ Young's writing has appeared in Reuters, the Oklahoman, and USA Today. He is pulled over by police more often than most white people change their sheets.
We need more books like this: personal, emotional meditations on gun ownership...showing us all the ways in which guns take on meaning for people, and what happens when those meanings collide. -Pacific Standard RJ Young's Let It Bang is a penetrating and personal look at America's gun culture that hits the mark, finding both what brings us together as much as what tears us apart. --Glenn Stout, author of Young Woman and the Sea and series editor, The Best American Sports Writing It's easy to stand outside the fray and criticize the gun-hung whites and radical rednecks defending the Second Amendment. It takes real courage to grab a pistol, head to the range, and try to understand where they're coming from. This is RJ Young's success with Let It Bang. --Ben Montgomery, author of Grandma Gatewood's Walk In the often muddled debate over gun possession and gun violence, Let It Bang resonates with common sense. --Charles E. Cobb, Jr., author of This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible Honest and heartbreaking, Young's raw account of being a black gun owner in America will mesmerize readers. --Publisher's Weekly