“The Thanksgiving tragedy in Hoover, Ala., highlights an American problem: The deaths of black men, legally armed and who have committed no crime, at the hands of police,” The Christian Science Monitor observes. “At a time when the president and guns rights activists have suggested that ‘good guys with guns’ are a solution for stopping mass shooters, some black gun owners are wondering if ‘helping while black’ is too dangerous.”
The writer has a point. But the “solution” is not to blame the Second Amendment. And that’s just what some agitators with a megaphone and an agenda are doing.
“At this point, you start to realize that really the Second Amendment is not intended for black people,” South African import and “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah declared. “It’s an uncomfortable thing to say, but it’s the truth. Like people will be like ‘the right to bear arms.’ Yes, the right to bear arms if you’re not a black man. If you’re a black man, you have no business bearing arms at all.”
That’s hardly the fault of the Second Amendment or of advocates of the right to keep and bear arms. But that doesn’t stop those opposed to the right from exploiting the deaths and saying it is to advance their agenda of control. And it doesn’t stop others from conflating the criminal abuse of guns with lawful ownership and use.
by David Codrea
