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.
“Just what we need...more inner city blacks with guns.
This will solve nothing.”
WHAT? You don’t believe law abiding citizens, no matter what their race or ethnicity, Should own a pistol or rifle?
You are on the wrong site, Man. Or did you forget the sarc./ ???
Take a breath, engage brain, think it through, then tell us what your mind thinks when it is properly prepared.
Mass Transit does not make it out in the countryside here.
And most inner city trash does not drive.
Course if they do they would not fit in too well and my private neighborhood would react
If they stay in the inner city and kill each other, no one cares.
That is probably why NJ gun laws are strict in comparison to PA; the suburbs are exposed to raids along the Welfarian reservation frontiers (though this should allow for LOOSER restrictions for the strategic hamlets to defend themselves)...
Is that you, Jim?
Notice the Egyptian symbol at the top of the page?
Great minds think alike.
I heard there is a bumper sticker that says ..........BLACK LABS MATTER...
Do you think if I get one someone will key my new Tahoe?
I saw a Hillary for Prison 2016 a few days a go, it would be fun but not at the expense of my new trucks paint.
Hey, what about licenses for all the other constitutional rights.
Wait...what? /S
Shall not be infringed knows no color
Residents need to be able to defend themselves against the resident evil.
Law enforcement agencies are hand cuffed. Now is the time for all good men to step up and step out the refuse.
The Supreme Court of the United States, IN 1857, said they had the RIGHT, if they were citizens of the USA.
Dred Scott vs Sanford.
What the SCOTUS thought about gun control in the pre Civil War era.
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0060_0393_ZO.html
It would give to persons of the negro race, who were recognised as citizens in any one State of the Union, the RIGHT to enter every other State whenever they pleased, singly or in companies, without pass or passport, and without obstruction, to sojourn there as long as they pleased, to go where they pleased at every hour of the day or night without molestation, unless they committed some violation of law for which a white man would be punished;
and it would give them the full liberty of speech in public and in private upon all subjects upon which its own citizens might speak; to hold public meetings upon political affairs,
and to KEEP AND CARRY ARMS wherever they went.
“Just what we need...more inner city blacks with guns. This will solve nothing.”
What a jerk ass comment.
Do you honestly believe that every inner city black is a feral criminal? You obviously don’t know jack shit about that community.
The truth is that the majority of those people are law abiding citizens who are being preyed upon by a low life segment of their population. They’re at far higher risk of being injured or killed by those animals, due to their immediate proximity.
Hell yeah, they need to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights!
I felt strangely comforted by the sight of this couple. I live in a military town, so seeing a gun in a holster is not that uncommon, but it was the image of this young couple working together to accomplish a task that is often left to the wife, expressing the opposite sentiment to "Black Lives (Only) Matter" by marrying someone of a different race, and exercising their Second Amendment right. This is the America that Hillary seeks to destroy and that DJT wants to restore.
I felt strangely comforted by the sight of this couple. I live in a military town, so seeing a gun in a holster is not that uncommon, but it was the image of this young couple working together to accomplish a task that is often left to the wife, expressing the opposite sentiment to “Black Lives (Only) Matter” by marrying someone of a different race, and exercising their Second Amendment right. This is the America that Hillary seeks to destroy and that DJT wants to restore.
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Me too. nice story. My adopted black kids are now all grown up and marrying into wonderful families. And they all are second amendment supporters.
“Up yours.
I know quite a bit about that community, tough guy.
I suggest you take your head out of your ass and take a ride to that community on a Friday night and tell me what you know about that community”
You’d have to spend more than a Friday night in the hood to know as much about those people as I do, seeing as I’m one of them.
Oh - what?? Yeah, fool. I’m a black man from South Central Los Angeles. Compton, to be specific. I think I might know a bit more about the black community than you do.
As I said, most people in the inner city are law abiding individuals who are at greater risk of being victimized by the thug element than you’ll ever be. Arming themselves, and fully execising their 2nd Amendment rights is a good thing.
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