Black Guns Matter: Firearms Training for Black Americans, by Black Americans
The right to self-defense knows no color, race, or creed.
The frustration and civil unrest that crystallized around the death of George Floyd can be expressed in one phrase: Black Lives Matter. But when you hear the phrase “Black Guns Matter,” you should know that it doesn’t refer to the AR-15 or any of the variants that we call “black rifles.” In fact, “Black Guns Matter” is a new group headed up by a Second Amendment pioneer named Maj Toure. His mission? To ensure that law-abiding Black Americans are ready and able to safely defend their lives and loved ones with firearms if need be.
In this fascinating article, Maj Toure dared to say what everyone knows but the mainstream media won’t report.
“While many argue that the way to prevent violence is to have fewer guns, he says the opposite. ‘I believe that more Black people would be alive if they were armed,’ Toure told Business Insider Weekly.
Toure won’t find many people in the Second Amendment community who would disagree with that. The cornerstone of 2A activism is the concept that the right to self-defense is a natural right, and it knows no color, race or creed. However, taking that concept from the ivory tower to the streets requires a level of determination that’s unique even among gun-rights supporters…and that’s quite literally what Toure is doing. According to the article:
When protests erupted in late May, Toure bought a flight to Minneapolis, where he began teaching crowds about self-defense and Black Guns Matter just a few blocks from Floyd’s memorial.
“If you would like a free basic firearm safety class, you can get it right here,” he told a group of passers-by, setting up a table with replica handguns. “The police, as we see, will leave. They will not come to save you. They will not save our businesses. So if you want that, I’ll do that here. Anyone can come. It is completely free.”
Here’s another cornerstone of Second Amendment activism explained (if you’ll forgive the metaphor) in clear black and white. The job of America’s law enforcement is not and never has been preventing crime from happening. According to the Supreme Court, law enforcement has no constitutional duty to actually protect you. Black, white, purple, child of Cthulhu, it doesn’t matter: You are your own first (and maybe last) line of defense. The article continues:
“I pick my words very carefully: All gun control is racist,” Toure said. “Whether they change it to make it look like, you know, you got to pay a fee, you got to do this, you do that.”
Historians say the links between gun control and racial discrimination go back to slavery and, later, Black Code laws that forbade African Americans from owning guns.
“Gun control in America was initially created to stop melanated beings from having arms,” Toure said.
There’s another round right in the X-ring! The origins of gun control in America are racist, and they remain racist. The code words they use are “urban” and “rural.” When you hear politicians yammering about how it’s all well and good for rural people to own guns, but urban people shouldn’t, what they mean is “I’m not scared of Caucasian people with guns, but I don’t want Black people to have them.”
When Toure walks into a Black Lives Matter crowd and meets so many people who have never touched a gun before, his work feels all the more pressing.
“People somehow forget that we have the right to defend our lives with firearms,” he said.
Absolutely agree with this article. 2A applies to ALL AMERICANS!!! Responsibility for your own defense applies to ALL AMERICANS!!! I am a white man of 70 years. Have never met a black person who wants to “take over” The people I have met just want an equal shot at the opportunities of other American citizens, including equal protection under the law. I am not in favor of rioting and destruction. I am in favor of people being able to pursue the rights and opportunities that are recognized and granted to all Americans by our Constitution!
Keep doing great work Maj. Everyone has the right to self defense. We need everyone we can get to carry and not be victims of assholes who attack the,weak.
The only problem i have is if a white man offered training for white Americans by white Americans they would be called racist. But when black people do it they are not racist.
This is great! Everyone deserves training if they want it, even if they can’t afford it.
More people should be helping people get training and exposed to the positive side of firearms.
Excellent post.
I am a Veteran who has shed my blood for the Construction, and the ideal that it applies to ALL Americans, no matter what their Race! I have worn a “Black Gun’s Matter ” for years. Mine, however, is about the AR 15 platform, and the Gun Grabbers, who try to deny my rights under the 2nd amendment.
These people say that Military style firearms are not covered by the 2nd amendment. I say, the Construction, is a living Document, that must grow with the times. They should be reminded, that the ” Flintlock Rifle ” was the Military firearms of the day.
The Constitution is NOT a “living document”. It says exactly what it means. Those who say it’s a “living document” are the ones that will tell you it has evolved to mead something other than what it says.
The Constitution must be read and interpreted as it was original written using the original meanings.
When it says, “The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed”, it meant exactly that and it shouldn’t be open to new “living” interpretation.
I appreciate the spirit of your position, but your terminology may be incorrect.
Please don’t get on the BLACK LIVES MATTER band wagon I do not support what they are causing in this country I do support Law Enforcement, I will not be purchasing any thing else from you and add you to my list . ALL LIVES MATTER
I don’t think that’s the point of the article. The point is that the 2A applies to all law-abiding citizens and this one guy is specializing in training Black Americans.
This has nothing to do with black lives matter. It is about every Americans right to bear arms. PERIOD !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you know what BLM manifesto reads like? It seems to me the title and endeavor here is encouraging a civil war. Better think things through a bit more before punishing. We need unity. All Americans have the same rights – we don’t need to separate out every little bit of difference between us. If gunsandgadgetsdaily.com gave a crap about our country’s situation you wouldn’t be publishing this. I didn’t read the article because just the title was enough to piss me off.
How are you going to complain about an article and then admit you didn’t read it? Bruh.
Awesome! Great work!
Am I suppose to be scared? LMAO!
I support equal access. But when the BLM people are blocking highways while carrying rifles, and shouting racist slogans like I HEARD ONE SHOUT AT STONE MOUNTAIN: “who am I? I’m your worst nightmare. I’m a black man with a gun!” Then I do not agree with you publishing their racist lunacy.
The BLM said their goal well, when they announced that they are not interested in equality, they intend to take control and tell white people what to do.
You people need to screen your sources better!
I agree with you wholeheartedly. We whites are an endangered species. Our culture, our history, our very lives are under attack. Let’s remember this sad state of affairs in November. If the Democrats win the White House and the Senate, our Country will cease to exist. It will be another Kenya, or another Zimbabwe, or another South Africa. The Mau-Mau are not only after us, but also after Asians and Pacific Islanders and whoever does not qualify as “black”! Only black lives will matter. And, no, I am not a white supremacist or a KKK member. I am a Libertarian forced to vote Republican as the lesser of two evils.
Seems to me that in places like Baltimore, or Minneapolis, or Oakland, or Portland, White Guns Matter is also needed…
Great job bringing awareness of people’s right to defend themselves and property. ( The right of the people…. shall not be infringed) is unequivocal . It means all Americans