Black gun owners ask: Does the Second Amendment apply to us?

[MisterVeritis]

While skimming GAB I ran across a link to this interesting story. Like many stories these days, there were comments about white racism. The story is riddled with baseless charges of white racism. Disregard the comments. They are throwaway lines.

Pay attention to the basic theme.

Like many African-Americans of his generation, Phillip Smith, a Californian in his 50s, grew up without a gun in the house. To his parents, gun ownership was not just politically unacceptable, but morally wrong – a fount, if anything, of trouble and tragedy. When he moved his own family to the South in 2002, he found a different tradition, where black families, many of them fresh from the farms, had hunting rifles for sport and, to an extent, self-defense. Mr. Smith was intrigued. As he bought his first guns and began practicing at a gun range, he had an epiphany: Perhaps the Second Amendment is the black man’s ultimate sign of full citizenship.

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2017/0711/Black-gun-owners-ask-Does-the-Second-Amendment-apply-to-us

When black citizens begin to realize the power of the Constitution, beginning with their right to defend themselves, can a move to the Republican party be far behind?

[Common]

Second amendment applies to every american citizen

[MisterVeritis]

Second amendment applies to every american citizen

Your statement is true only to the extent that citizens embrace it.

[Common]

Your statement is true only to the extent that citizens embrace it.

Thats up to them

[Hoosier8]

Some people get it.

[Hoosier8]

The first gun control was implemented to keep guns out of the hands of newly freed slaves. Guess that makes gun control racist.

[MisterVeritis]

Your statement is true only to the extent that citizens embrace it.

Thats up to them

Yes. That is the point of the article. Did you read it? Of course, you didn't.

[Safety]

Nope, considering Reagan signed a gun ban based upon black people carrying guns, and the most recent case where some black men were posing with rifles and a sign supporting Stacy Abrams for governor in Ga, in which like clockwork, conservatives $#@!ted the bed.

Then there’s Philando Castile....still waiting for the NRA or any 2nd amendment advocate to even care who he was...

[MisterVeritis]

Nope, considering Reagan signed a gun ban based upon black people carrying guns, and the most recent case where some black men were posing with rifles and a sign supporting Stacy Abrams for governor in Ga, in which like clockwork, conservatives $#@!ted the bed.

Then there’s Philando Castile....still waiting for the NRA or any 2nd amendment advocate to even care who he was...

I do not expect the radical, and often racist hard left blacks to embrace the Constitution. That leaves almost everyone else.

[Common]

Nope, considering Reagan signed a gun ban based upon black people carrying guns, and the most recent case where some black men were posing with rifles and a sign supporting Stacy Abrams for governor in Ga, in which like clockwork, conservatives $#@!ted the bed.

Then there’s Philando Castile....still waiting for the NRA or any 2nd amendment advocate to even care who he was...

Some people are totally disengenuous, if there were white men posing with rifles with a sign supporting DeSantis for Gov of Fla, or Kemp for Gov of Ga

How would the left react to that

The officer that killed Castile, Yanez has been charged, Yanez wrongfully shooting Castille has nothing to do with the NRA

EVERYONE needs to heed these words

If you are a legal gun owner with a valid carry permit and you have your weapon on you in your vehicle and you are stopped by a Police officer. The first thing you do when he says put down the window is inform him you have a weapon on you and its legal.

You do that before you say ANYTHING ELSE, if you dont and he sees that gun he will assume and RIGHTFULLY assume thats an illegal gun and a possible threat to him if you didnt tell him upfront.