“It's not my liking for guns, what about the NRA? We all have the rights to bear arms, I have that, I have that same right as you do. Just because I'm black doesn't mean I shouldn't have a gun; I legally own guns.”

— Tupac Shakur

1990s, Interview outside courthouse (1994)

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