Maj Toure Tells Congress Gun Training, Education Needed In Inner Cities

By Cam Edwards

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The House, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security held a hearing on “Community Responses to Gun Violence in our Cities” on Thursday, and while most of the speakers were fully in favor of a wide range of gun control laws, one panelist had a very different point of view. Maj Toure, the founder of Black Guns Matter, told the assembled lawmakers that the very title of the hearing was not only misleading, but misses the point completely.

“We do not have a gun violence issue in our urban centers, but we do have a host of other issues that, coupled with the lack of de-escalation tools, lead to violence. What we are experiencing is not an issue with guns, per se, but more a lack of an ability to navigate trauma. If we are going to address violence in urban America, we need to address violence of all kinds. Singling out firearms is a tremendous misstep in terms of solving the issue.”

Toure believes that the solutions to violent crime have to come from education and training, not gun control laws that have obliterated the culture of lawful gun ownership in many urban areas. When education has been …Read the Rest

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