It can be dangerous to be black and a legal gun owner in America

LoneSage

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I posted this screenshot a week ago:
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Which lithy took umbrage with, and apparently festered in the back of his mind for awhile. He couldn't understand, why would black gun owners face trouble for having their guns in visible sight and protesting loudly (during a pandemic when people were ordered to stay at home, and after a time when people were ordered to wear face masks in public)?

In fact, there are instances where being black and having a gun has gotten them killed by police:
https://apnews.com/74d47b3e3ae74d92be5d1dda0e8ab038

Roberson was working security at a Robbins, Illinois, bar when he was killed Nov. 11 while holding at gunpoint a man involved in a shooting. Witnesses said the officer ordered the 26-year-old Roberson to drop his gun before opening fire.

But witnesses also reportedly shouted that Roberson, who had a firearms permit, was a guard. And a fellow guard said Roberson was wearing a knit hat and sweatshirt that were emblazoned “Security.”

Bradford, 21, was killed Thanksgiving night by an officer responding to a report of gunfire at a shopping mall in Hoover, Alabama. Police initially identified Bradford as the gunman but later backtracked and arrested another suspect.

Ben Crump, a lawyer for the dead man’s family, said witnesses claimed Bradford was trying to wave people away from the shooting. Crump said Bradford was licensed to carry a weapon but was presumably seen as a threat because he was a black man.

Philando Castile was shot in a car in 2016 in Minnesota, seconds after informing the officer he had a gun. The officer was acquitted of manslaughter.

John Crawford III was shot in a Walmart in Ohio in 2014 while holding a BB gun he had picked up in the sporting goods section. Security footage showed he never pointed it at anyone.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...catch-22-for-black-men-shot-by-police/570124/

Right-wings news that used to be fringe decades ago is now front and stage. The fear of 'The Other' has been paraded since Trump became president.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/a...catch-22-for-black-men-shot-by-police/570124/

NRA representatives now compare liberals to the terrorist group ISIS, publish fiction warning that Syrian refugees would establish an ISIS branch in the United States, argue that “minorities” should be blamed for gun violence, and, in a startlingly on-the-nose echo of Reconstruction-era racist propaganda, warn that if Black Lives Matter isn’t stopped whites will face mass rape and murder like white people in South Africa. No wonder former Republican Representative Joe Scarborough observed in February that NRA messaging can “come close, pretty close to inciting violence.”

NRATV tells its viewers that they are under assault from liberals, black people, undocumented immigrants, and Muslims, and that they might one day need to kill them—in self defense, of course. Like the president, the NRA has correctly divined that fomenting and exploiting white people’s fears and hatreds is an effective sales strategy. If marketing murder fantasies is what it takes to move the product, then so be it. When the answer to any problem has to be “Buy more guns,” then absurd logic, such as holding dead people responsible for being shot by police in their own home, is inevitable.

Then of course there was a young black man jogging who was hunted down and murdered just because he was black and running. The murder happened in February, but because of his close connections to the police department, the killer was never charged until video of it leaked on the internet:

So there are some things white people never think about black people, because why would they? Things like how black people have to do their hair, why black people put on lotion, why black people started the BLM movement (which was never against all lives mattering, but feeling a need to state that black lives matter, too), and why black people might be apprehensive to legally own a gun, much less have it out in public like the white protestors had.

Because the fact is is that police officers have killed black people who legally owned guns, and there are white people who kill black people simply because they're black. It's a fear.

Do I know black protestors with guns acting the exact same way, yelling right in front of cops' faces would get in trouble, or arrested, or shot? No, I don't know. But there would have been a possibility, IMO.

 

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If you could spend one day as a black or brown guy you would see how tough it can be to deal with ( yes even while being cooperative and polite) law enforcement. I honestly expect every interaction with law enforcement to potentially be fatal.

This is not an imaginary fear but a fear supported by case after case.

If you're blind to this now, you'll always be.
 
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