Posted September 12, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Guns aren’t just for white folks. The Second Amendment states that the people’s right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, not just white folks. Now, many of our Founding Fathers had some peculiar notions on just who qualified as “people” back in the day, but we’ve gotten past that. We recognize that people mean folks of various ethnicities.

That’s good for all of us.

However, guns are still thought of as the domain of white folks, occasionally colored with shades of “white folks afraid of non-white folks,” if we’re fair. Not everyone thinks this way, but enough do that it’s something we need to be mindful of.

Yet it’s surprising when someone clearly profiles a group that’s not your typical bunch of white folks with guns. In this case, CBS took a look at the National African American Gun Association.

Co-host Anthony Mason introduced, “The country’s largest and best known gun rights association, the NRA, is losing board members. But another lesser known gun organization is thriving.” Reporter Omar Villafranca explained that the National African American Gun Association “has become the largest minority gun club in the country. There are more than 75 chapters …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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