Could Malcolm X's 'Ballot or the Bullet' Apply to America's Gun Epidemic

In 1964 Malcolm X gave a historic speech that would become known as "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech in the fight for civil rights, named the seventh most important speech in the American 20^th century by a panel of 137 scholars.

He said: "It’s time now for you and me to become more politically mature and realize what the ballot is for; what we’re supposed to get when we cast a ballot; and that if we don’t cast a ballot, it’s going to end up in a situation where we’re going to have to cast a bullet.  It’s either a ballot or a bullet.”

It was a revolutionary idea, but one that the country was headed toward without important legislation and change.

We might get to a point in this country where “Ballot or the Bullet” becomes a relevant statement for the gun epidemic. Of course, that would mean anti-gun people would have to throw away their beliefs, at least for the time being to prove their point.

Malcolm X said "it's either a ballot or a bullet" and when it comes to this particular issue in America it doesn't seem the ballot is working.