The 'Young Black Man' Who Reluctantly Became An NRA-Certified Instructor
RJ Young developed an interest in guns in order to bond with his white father-in-law. The experience is chronicled is his new book, Let It Bang.
RJ Young wasn't always into firearms. Quite the opposite.
"Because I always knew that guns were something that could get me killed," he says in an interview. "They weren't really around to help me. They were always, you know, pointed at me or somebody who looked like me."
Young is a writer and sports commentator, especially on Oklahoma Sooners football. He's a black man.
But then he met Lizzie, the white woman from Oklahoma who he would go on to marry. And the way he thought he could win over her father Charles was by doing the thing that he loved: shooting guns. And the more he began to learn about guns, the more he felt that he had to become an expert — that he had to
