In the recent article written by Thomas L. Friedman titled "If Only Stephen Paddock Were a Muslim" , Friedman discusses the unquestionable and active choice that legislators and the president are making to avoid changes in the gun control policy. After the unfortunate Las Vegas incident, Friedman discusses how he barely thought there would've been a change seen by the government regarding gun control policies, but even that little hope was a disappointment. Friedman continues to say that in the event Stephen Paddock hadn't been a white American man labeled as "mentally ill" and had been a Muslim man, there might've been immediate enforcement by President Trump to do whatever it is to fix such an act of public "terrorism". However, because it had only been a white old male, society is expected to sit down with their mouths closed and justify the act by means of "mentally ill". America silently accepts the rage of a white man but if the...
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