Globe Columnist Lies Four Times in One Post To Keep Black Americans Disarmed

By Bob Owens

Renée Graham, a columnist and editor for the Boston Globe, has shown a stunning amount of dishonesty in a recent column attempting to scare her fellow African-Americans away from exercising their right bear arms.

One paragraph in Graham’s column was particularly disgusting, as it cited four high-profile incidents of African-Americans with firearms, and got the facts and the law wrong in every single instance.

Here’s what’s also unfortunate: More people of color with guns will likely result in more people of color dead or in prison. Minnesota’s open carry law did not save Philando Castile. He informed the officer who stopped his car that he was carrying a licensed gun, but was still shot to death in front of his girlfriend and her young daughter in July. In 2014, Ohio’s open-carry law did not spare the life of 12-year-old Tamir Rice , shot dead by a cop while playing with a toy gun. This past week, officials declined to charge a police officer in the shooting death of Keith Scott who may have had a gun in his possession but was not holding it when he was killed in Charlotte earlier this year. North Carolina is also an open-carry state.

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