‘It Was About Checking The Government, Not Anti-Blackness’: Black Gun Owners Respond To ACLU’s Claim Second Amendment Is Racist

dailycaller.com ^ | 7/27/2021 | Briana Lyman

[rktman]

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed the Second Amendment has been included in the Constitution because of rampant “anti-blackness” and that the foundation of the amendment is inherently racist. But two black gun owners – including one who exercised his Second Amendment right to save his life – said the ACLU is guilty of fear-mongering.

Founder of Black Guns Matter Maj Toure told the Daily Caller claims the Second Amendment is racist is a tactic to “brainwash black people into believing that having the means to defend themselves is nefarious.”

“I think gun control is racist, not the Second Amendment,” Toure said.

“I think the Second Amendment was to remind folks to keep your government in check. The lack of civic understanding is the reason why some of these attempts to distort the meaning can be made because the general public isn’t as on top of civics as they should be,” he continued.

“I think it’s a stretch to say ‘anti-blackness determined the inclusion of the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights,’ the Second Amendment is designed to put the government on watch,” he added. “The First Amendment says you can say what you want, and the Second Amendment says you can defend what the fuck you just said. I don’t think ‘anti-blackness’ played a part in the framing. But that’s not to say there weren’t people who used guns for the wrong reasons. I think it was about checking government, not anti-blackness.”

[rktman]

Then again, the aclu, as expected, agrees with pedo joe and his ilk when it comes to the 2nd amendment. Guess all rights aren't equal huh. Back to the bottom of the barrel.

[Wonder Warthog]

The ACLU has always been anti-gun. They love the Bill of Rights....except for Article II.

[rktman]

Weird huh? LOL!

[PapaBear3625]

Conversely, discretionary gun licensing was all about letting the local sheriff ensure that blacks didn’t get licensed.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Gun control has always been racist.

The NRA was formed in part to ensure the 2nd Amendment rights of black people so they could defend themselves from Democrats (KKK).

[rktman]

Shhhhhhhhh! You’ll spoil the lies. 😱😂🙌

[OttawaFreeper]

What has me shaking my head in utter disbelief that ACLU and other such minded people would think in that way is when you consider that it would take U.S. and Canadian criminals (along with a few Adam Lanzas and Dylan Klebolds and James Holmeses thrown in) many hundreds of centuries to equal the number of people murdered by just four governments (Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Mao’s China, and Khmer Rouge Cambodia) in the last century alone. And these governments did this after “legally” disarming the citizens.

[ought-six]

The ACLU was founded by communist sympathizers.

[Nabron]

“The ACLU was founded by communist sympathizers.”
Out of necessity; when one of them would get caught, it was very difficult to find lawyers to represent them in court, and the legal fees of previously “useful idiots” were of no concern to their ideological overlords overseas.