Posted on 05/21/2016 3:44:53 AM PDT by marktwain
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Maj Toure is a 29 year old black activist in Philadelphia who wants black people in urban centers to exercise their Second Amendment rights. From philly.com:
Toure is a young African American man who grew up in North Philadelphia watching the destruction caused by gun violence, but who nonetheless was attracted to firearms, and became an official, dues-paying NRA member and legal gun owner.It is nice to see an idea that has been pushed by many Second Amendment activists take root in Philadelphia. Philadelpia officials have been adamantly opposed to citizens exercising their Second Amendment rights.
"The stigma, especially in an urban environment like Philly, is if you have a gun, you're either law enforcement or the bad guy," Toure said when we talked recently. "What we're trying to do is say that just because you have a gun doesn't make you the bad guy. But while you have your firearm, which you have the right to have, you have to be a responsible, card-carrying good guy."
Lott: I wont speculate about motives, but the results tell a different story. High crime urban areas and neighborhoods with large minority populations have the greatest reductions in violent crime when citizens are legally allowed to carry concealed handguns.A strong reason to encourage black people to be armed is to reinforce the idea that the Constitution applies to them as well as everyone else. When a black person sees that they can be legally armed, it shows that the promises of the Constitution are being enforced. Belief in the criminal justice system is essential for a low crime rate.
The changing attitudes toward the Second Amendment may build support for Republicans in the coming election. Donald Trump has strong Second Amendment positions in his campaign. Hillary Clinton has made gun control and attacks on gun manufacturers a major plank in hers. It is one of the strongests contrasts on the issue in the last 20 years.And Toure is hitting on something that is playing out nationally, which is the rise of gun ownership, and gun clubs, among African Americans, and the rise in urban areas of law-abiding citizens brazenly open-carrying. According to a December 2014 poll by the Pew Research Center, 54 percent of blacks said they believed guns were more likely to protect people than to put their safety at risk. That figure was up from 29 percent two years earlier.
I’ve been waiting for your reply.
NOT disappointed!
XOXO
“Ive been waiting for your reply. NOT disappointed!”
Thanks for being there, Onyx. You’re like an angel over my shoulder :-)
You sir, are the type of idiot that doesn't see the equivalency of your belief about guns in the hands of the wrong people with that of the establishment and their disdain for the gun rights of Middle Class Americans.
Please look in the mirror and while saying "Just what we need...more hillbillie crackers in the sticks with guns. This will solve nothing."
I bet that it will make you feel like and ass and,if it does not, then you are an ass.
Post5203 is acting like an ass. God given rights are for everybody.
Keep fighting the good fight and maybe we will all come out of this mess ok.
Harriet Tubman was a great one.
No, it’s about no dad in the picture and libs ruining the black family. Mom and grandma and great grandma can’t teach a black boy how to be a man.
Fire for effect ...
Hopefully it’s not just wishful thinking but it seems like black people are really waking up. They’re getting it and they’re refusing to allow themselves to be divided from white people. Theyre finally realizing this is their country and its us against them. They know who THEM is. This probably seems naive. I understand.
“Great shot, Windflier”
Thanks. I would have objected to the comment, even if I didn’t have an intimate familiarity with that community.
“God given rights are for everybody.
Keep fighting the good fight and maybe we will all come out of this mess ok.”
Amen to that. We’ve got to hang together. Lord knows the forces of evil are looking to exploit every chink in our bedraggled armor they can find.
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