Media scream, “Too many people have guns!”
Second Amendment activist Maj Toure says more people should carry guns.
“Everybody should be walking around,” he says in my new video, “like, ‘Oh man, I left my gun in the house. Let me go back and get it.’ It should be as normal as a cellphone.”
Activists and some politicians want gun control.
Toure says, “All gun control is racist!”
All?
“It was literally started to stop Black people from having the means to defend themselves.”
He’s right. In the 1600s, American colonies had rules against Blacks owning guns.
“It’s a good thing we don’t like being told what human rights we have,” says Toure. “I’m an American. I go by the Constitution.”
Few Americans know that anti-slavery hero Harriet Tubman carried a gun most of the time.
“She needed to,” says Toure. “If it wasn’t for strong women like Harriet Tubman, liberty-minded people saying, nah, (slavery) is not cool, not OK, a contradiction of the Founding Fathers, what they wrote down (not what they all did, but what they wrote down). She wouldn’t have had the bravery to oppose that during a time when opposition meant death. More people should think about that right.”
What about today? I ask, “Is gun control still racist?”
“Absolutely!” he says. “Look at the outcome. Take California … (you have to get) a state-issued license to carry. If you live in Oakland, Compton, in Los Angeles County, the chances of you getting a license, even though the Second Amendment is clear, it’s very little. But if you live in Brentwood, Orange County, Beverly Hills, the issue rate for that license to carry goes up. Which one of those areas is more predominantly Black and brown people?”