The Reawakening of the Black Gun-Rights Movement
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2020
- "I believe that I'm channeling my ancestors," says Second Amendment activist Brent Holmes, who carries an assault rifle to protests in Richmond, Virginia.
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When Second Amendment activist Brent Holmes started showing up at police brutality protests in Richmond, Virginia, over the summer while carrying an assault rifle across his chest, passersby would cheer him on.
"'Yes, yes, he gets it,'" Holmes says. "He knows that he has those rights, too.'"
Holmes, who also wears a red baseball cap with the words "I CAN'T BREATHE" embroidered across the front, is part of a community of black gun-rights activists who have been showing up armed to protests in several American cities.
"You have this history well before the Civil War of organized black self-defense in Northern communities," says George Washington University Professor of Law Robert J. Cottrol, editor of Gun Control and the Constitution: Sources and Explorations on the Second Amendment (1994). Guns have been essential for protecting black civil rights since the antebellum period, Cottrol tells Reason.
Following "the tremendous push" for black voter registration in the 1950s and '60s, when the Ku Klux Klan decided to try to "intimidate and kill" those who were involved, Cottrol says, "you have [armed] groups beginning to be formed designed to protect the black community and the Civil Rights community."
"I believe that I'm channeling my ancestors," says Holmes.
Producer and Editor: Qinling Li; Cinematographer: Arthur Nazaryan, Qinling Li; graphics by Lex Villena; research by Regan Taylor
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I don't care what their political issues are; whenever law abiding people around the world take up arms, it is a win for freedom.
Subject or Citizen? It's your choice
BLM is not making a strong case for that
@Jbog07 True. And sadly it will take another century or several decades before they had actually achieved what Martin Luther King Jr. had envisioned.
@@guntherbeethoven4895 That is sadly true. Even the Black Militas aren't making a strong argument either.
I don’t care about “law abiding”. If you’re minding your business and not initiating aggression towards others or their property you’re ok in my book.
Problem with armed revolutions is that they almost never end well. They lead to change, sure, but of what kind?
"A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give." - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
I don't think I have ever seen a black home, Americans of various skin color yes but the home itself wasn't black.
@@johnnycee5179That was the most pathetic “I don’t see color” comment I ever herd.
An armed society is a polite society
We have polite societies without arms. Canada, New Zealand, EU. There is respect for police. The bible says the government bears the arms to be used against evidoers.
@@ka9fon and the constitution states that the citizens ARE the Government...Supreme Court ruled in 2005 that police do not have to place themselves in danger for another person....cops are being told to stand down if protests get violent the only person really in charge of your safety is you
All recent Supreme Court decisions need to be revisited. Police should be in charge of security. It is not my responsibility to protect myself. Personally I can own a gun. But society needs security forces to stay safe. I would even like a civil guard that would work beats to maintain order. Some EU countries have them.
@@ka9fon speaking from personal experience all police forces are reactionary. The average time it takes LAPD for example one of the top Police forces world wide has an average response time of 8-15 minutes or greater depending on where in LA you are. That’s enough time to brew a cop of coffee make some toast and let a criminal drink it before they show up. Are you going to ask the criminal to wait a minute the cops will be here in 8-15 minutes? That’s assuming you even get the call off. Your self protection is the only protection you will get if you ever need it.
ohhhhh realllly? 🤣🤣
EVERYONE HAS THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS NO MATTER THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN OR YOUR CREED WE ALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS NEVER FORGET THAT
WHAT ABOUT THE RIGHT TO BEAR CAPS LOCK?
@@DaedalusHelios everyone may exercise the right to stay and parent their child
@@DaedalusHelios what's your point? Same thing is true for white men too.
Yeah but not to infernal on others
@@DaedalusHelios Nice denial of evidence and facts, bootlicker
“Gun is just a tool.”
Sensationalist news media: Nuh-uh
Edit: Fixed mistake
>Sensualist news media: Nuh-uh
Uhh. Sensualist? or Sensationalist?
@@naarcissus “sensationalist”
I could deffo get down with sensualist media tho...
There is NO reason why any Law Abiding black person should not have the same rights to self defense as white Americans. We are all AMERICANS it time we recognize that fact and stand together
They do have that right, the government recognizes that right. The only ones fighting against those rights are democrats. Where in the legal code does it state black people can't bear arms?
Fabio Mendes Police behavior from Antebellum until today. It’s not on paper 📝 🙄
@@dogfacedponysoldier5971
There is nothing ON PAPER saying black folks can't bear arms, but (as pointed out in this video) there is a nefarious perception among both Democrats and Republicans (Reagan supported the Brady Bill for example) that blacks with guns are criminals. Thus, they are more likely to face legal trouble than white people.
@@rickysanders6487 🙄Introduced in the House of Representatives as H.R.1025 by Rep. Charles E. Shumer (D-NY) on February 22, 1993
Passed the House of Representatives on November 10, 1993 (238-189)
Passed the Senate on November 20, 1993 (63-36)
Reported by the joint conference committee on November 22, 1993; agreed to by the House of Representatives on November 23, 1993 (238-187) and by the Senate on November 24, 1993 (passed by voice vote)
Signed into law by President Bill Clinton on November 30, 1993
The Brady bill isn't exclusive to black people and it was passed by Democrats. Regan did support the act because he got shot by some crazy white guy. Regan didn't want crazies having guns because one ended up shooting him.
@@rickysanders6487 The only people who fought that bill where Republican. If you can name any democrats that where against it, please inform me.
When people get tribal, more problems happen. Yelling about "black power" is no different than yelling about "white power". Tribalism is divisive and dangerous.
These brothers are on the wrong side of the argument. They’re what I like to call “half-way red pilled”. Observing our Constitution is the start. Now they have to observe who’s been violating it. Only then will the real awakening occur.
Hold on what do you mean by this
@@arandomzoomer4837 I was wondering that too
Too bad they’re marching with the same Marxists who will be the quickest to take away those rights when they are in power.
Bingo. Post modernism, Marxists, and leftism, not necessarily Democrats, are the bane of civilized society. Albeit, those things follow the Democratic party if not endemic within it.
@@arandomzoomer4837 The Democrats historically have been violating our Constitution, and the Republicans have been fighting for freedom and equality for all. Slavery was the Democrats. Jim Crow was the Democrats. Democrats made it illegal for blacks to own guns because they feared a slave rebellion. Republicans passed the Civil Rights Act. Democrats passed the Crime Bill of 1994, disproportionately making many black men felons who are now unable to legally obtain a firearm. Democrats only care about black votes, not black people. Three-Fifths comprise should have shown us that. Yet, you fools still run to the polls to put these snakes in office.
"You are responsible for your own protection"
Absolutely. Police officers aren't first responders, the individual citizen is his own first responder.
I have some news for that guy in the opening. When a White guy walks down the street with a rifle on his back, people freak out.
Later in the video it's clarified that he's talking about NRA meetups/parades as compared to the BLM marches, not just random black/white people walking down the street.
He's probably correct about that, but to the newsmedia's credit, the NRA hasn't been throwing riots recently, and the fact that NRA marches are *about* the guns makes their appearance a lot less concerning than at any other topic of march, because the NRA is just celebrating their right to have the guns, not planning to use them.
@Jbog07 Sounds like the Community needs to self regulate and put down the rioters and looters within there own ranks but they wont or cant because of the ideology.
So they want guns to protect their communities, which is great and I support, but why are they going into someone else’s neighborhood and saying ‘our streets’?? That’s very aggressive and won’t end well. Idiots!!
Streets are streets. Everyones streets, not yours or mine. I can't help but think every one having guns is a better idea than just the cops and the crims having them. Sure, there are potential problems, but, when grandma is as powerful as anyone else things become more equitable for all. You either have guns or not. A position where some are allowed and others not is never going to result in stability. Keep well all. Aim at the problems, not each other. :)
@@Graeme_Lastname but there are problems with people not from your area showing up to protest your local government. First, its disingenuous and does not actually represent the views of the community, and second it creates unnecessary conflict and violence that negatively impacts your community.
Protestors from Los Angeles or Portland should not be showing up in every city or town in the US and continue hopping from place to place because it only frustrates the people there, and plainly demonstrates the inauthenticity of these "grassroots" movements, where corporate and billionaire funds pay for everything.
Looked like a white lib turd shouting that.
"Where was the NRA?" Same place they alway are, fund raising for Lapierre's next vacation.
As far as cops being more friendly when the playing field is even, correlation is not causation. Hes not wrong cops are typically more comfortable with those who have a concealed carry permit, they are fully aware that a holder of a CCW permit is the least likly person in the country to commit a crime statistically. As soon as you show them that card you just told them that according to the odds they are safer with you then even another cop. You have just been profiled, to a outcome that you like.
Good point
That and also they are not worried as worried if you say you have a gun because it is no longer an unknown, they worry if someone is just hiding one
Not according to the ghost of Philando Castile
Love it black people should be armed so we can protect ourselves. It's clear.
How about some white person says: "we're organizing to build white power"? How well is that going to go over? So don't cry about being a poor oppressed black gun owner, just a oppressed legal gun owner period.
these guys are clearly going to vote for the people who will try to take their guns
That one guy in the "I Can't Breathe" hat surely is.
I think the other guy (the skinny one) is slowly getting redpilled by the irony of the bs the protesters were demanding.
@@buddyblader3183 That's his right. What you gonna do about it?
Responsible gun ownership is for all! 2A is an amendment for black, white and all citizens. I am not for defunding the police however I am in favor of reforms for policing.
I am an old lady from the sixties who owns, shoots and supports freedoms.
Shooting one another because of ideology is not a right for any. Protecting your home, family etc is - should be and in most cases is a right. For myself personally, to take any life would break my soul and if push came to shove I would give my own life to save others. I know that some have a different view and I support your right to protect your homes with your 2A right.
Mhm. Reminds me of a lady I know here in CA. Had bad stuff happen to her. Got a ccw legally. Doesn't work about bad stuff any more
Couldn't agree more. Israel started training American police forces over 20 years ago and the tactics they use on Palestinians are now the tactics used on black citizens. Keep the American police force, change their training programs!
B With a B Nicely said.
Aussie2u The police is acting more like a occupation force.
I just get tired of telling people in these comment sections. You can tell them person experience after experience, and the response “ More white people are killed than black”. I’m like what does that have to do with unjustified killings? They spit more stats “90% of crime is black on black “. How tone deaf is that? 🤦🏿♂️
Alexander truths
I, for one, am glad to see more people from different backgrounds exercising their 2nd amendment rights!
Everyone has a right to bare arms and everyone should fight to keep that right. That said it is off-putting to turn it into a racial issue. Its like if white nationalists were heavily armed. Good for you. You have that right. Doesnt change the fact that your underlying ideology is dangerous, illogical, and incompatible with mine.
Good for them all law abiding Americans should be armed
True keep up the good work.
That professor was good. There's a long and honorable history of American blacks arming themselves with firearms for the purpose of self-defense and defending their communities from evil violence. The Deacons for Defense and Justice, Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells ("A Winchester rifle deserves a place of honor in every black home.")
However, the black chauvinists in this video are just very ill-informed. There was major outrage within the gun rights community at the Philando Castile case, although the NRA leadership (who gun rights activists revile) only issued a mild statement of concern. It is not "normal" for white men to walk on city streets with rifles and they attract just as much scrutiny as black men doing so. Does he really think local "Karens" don't find open carry displays scary and offensive?
I would have liked to have seen black gun rights activist featured in this who actually interact with the larger gun rights community. People who conduct training and actually are great ambassadors for gun rights, not some untrained people who picked up a gun for the first time last week and who may endanger themselves and others with unsafe firearms handling. I'm talking activists like Maj Toure, founder of Black Guns Matter, former NRA spokesman Colion Noir, black range owners and firearms trainers like Rick Ector of Rick's Firearms Academy in Detroit who gives hundreds of (mostly black) women free safe shooting classes every year, and black gun organizations like the National African-American Gun Association (yes, their acronym is NAAGA, which I think was deliberate given how much they joke about it). Most of these black gun rights activists are sympathetic and sensitive to the concerns of the larger black community, but they also have more experience with gun politics and frankly know a lot more about what they're talking about when it comes to the intersection of blacks and guns then a bunch of protesters who have just discovered gun right and are marching around with these guns as props while shouting about "black power" and demanding less lawfulness and law enforcement in crime-ridden communities. Reason should have interviewed some of them for this video. They would have even found some libertarians.
Paelorian We need more people like this. Just the facts no hyperbole. No “in the good old days “. Like the good old days were good for everyone.
Perfect commentary, sir!
Where's the guy's outrage about the NRA being silent on Kyle Rittenhouse? Or does the NRA's silence only matter to him when the victim is black?
David P I guess it can look like that if you are looking at the issue superficially. There is not an obviously high murder rate when white peoples come in contact with law enforcement. If it were so we all should be demanding justice for all of the white people “unjustly” killed by the police.
The fact that a police officer shoot a suspect is in its self not the problem. The problem is when it’s unjustified ( emphasis). Handcuffed individuals lying on their stomachs with an officer’s knee on his neck is unjustified. So is choking a man to death for the terrible crime of selling cigarettes. The list goes on and on. If the problem was mostly against white people, I would be shoulder to shoulder with you on this subject.
I want to be clear. Any unjustified killings of any one is not ok. When a white homeless man was murdered near me in Orange County, CA I was outraged because the poor man was suffering from mental illness and was homeless, and the homeless getting treated like dirt and I can relate. Many people demanded accountability from law enforcement.... we are still waiting.
With that being said, the senseless murder of black people is in a different ballpark, and has been so for hundreds of years. So, to answer for the gentleman, he is not unset with the NRA simply because the murder victim was black. The NRA seems to always be mum on the issue of police violence. Which the bulk of is against people of color.
I myself is a Lifetime NRA member, and this issue has been on my mind for the past year. It’s a complicated issue. There are no simple solutions that everyone would agree on.
Lastly, I don’t want anyone to be killed by the cops. No matter there color. It appears too much of America is choosing to ignore people’s plights because it’s not their problem. Cops (not all) see black men all threatening on sight. I have to overly make my voice more cheerful because I’m terrified I might make an officer jumpy. It usually gets better once I talk about my military career. Many have similar backgrounds. I try hard to share this with my white brothers and sisters, but some just say I have nothing to worry about. Wow! It must be nice to be that relaxed around police.
@@hssnjhnsn "I guess it can look like that if you are looking at the issue superficially."
Feel free to show proof my analysis is superficial. I'll wait.
"There is not an obviously high murder rate when white peoples come in contact with law enforcement. If it were so we all should be demanding justice for all of the white people 'unjustly' killed by the police."
You sure about that? “We did not find evidence for anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparity in police use of force across all shootings, and, if anything, found anti-White disparities when controlling for race-specific crime.” Research paper from University of Michigan and University of Maryland - www.pnas.org/content/116/32/15877
Also, "When examining reaction time to shoot in deadly scenarios, we found that officers took significantly longer to shoot armed Black suspects than armed White suspects (f = 3.58; df = 2,870; p < .05). When holding all other variables constant (including suspect demeanor, language, dress, distance from participant, movement, location, sound, and light levels), officers took an average 200 ms longer to shoot armed Black suspects than armed White suspects." The Reverse Racism Effect - www.documentcloud.org/documents/2813702-The-Reverse-Racism-Effect.html#document/p1
From the same study, "we found that officers were slightly more than three times less likely to shoot unarmed Black suspects than unarmed White suspects."
We have a study showing that officers take longer to shoot black suspects than white suspects and that they are three times less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects vs unarmed white suspects. You claim there is no high murder rate, and I agree, but it the rate is HIGHER for whites than blacks. I still don't want my police defunded.
"The fact that a police officer shoot a suspect is in its self not the problem. The problem is when it’s unjustified ( emphasis). Handcuffed individuals lying on their stomachs with an officer’s knee on his neck is unjustified."
Tell me the handcuffed individual with an officer's knee on his neck that was shot. If you're talking about George Floyd, he OFFERED to go to the ground instead of being put in the cop car. The knee restraint was the PD's taught and approved restraint method.
"So is choking a man to death for the terrible crime of selling cigarettes."
The cop started choking the guy as soon as he saw him selling cigarettes? Please show me the video of the victim selling cigarettes and the cop IMMEDIATELY chocking him to death. Again, I'll wait.
"The list goes on and on."
But you won't bother listing more than two...
"If the problem was mostly against white people, I would be shoulder to shoulder with you on this subject."
No, you shouldn't. I've already detailed more unarmed white people have been killed by police in 2019. Just because a cop shoots someone doesn't mean the cop was wrong. The situation matters, and I'd be willing to say the vast majority of unarmed whites killed by cops in 2019 were justified shootings.
"I want to be clear. Any unjustified killings of any one is not ok. When a white homeless man was murdered near me in Orange County, CA I was outraged because the poor man was suffering from mental illness and was homeless, and the homeless getting treated like dirt and I can relate. Many people demanded accountability from law enforcement.... we are still waiting."
The key word being, 'unjustified.'
"With that being said, the senseless murder of black people is in a different ballpark, and has been so for hundreds of years."
Yes, mostly by other black people.
88.6% of murdered black people are murdered by other black people. - ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
"So, to answer for the gentleman, he is not unset with the NRA simply because the murder victim was black. The NRA seems to always be mum on the issue of police violence. Which the bulk of is against people of color."
Because police are forced to interact with people of color at a disproportionate rate. Blacks make up 13ish% of the US population, yet account for 26.6% of arrests. They account for 51.2% of murder arrests, 26.7% of rape arrests, 52.7% of robbery arrests, 33.2% of aggravated assault arrests, 28.8% of burglary arrests, 30.2% of larceny arrests, 28.6% of motor vehicle theft arrests, 24.7% of arson arrests. 36.4% of all Violent Crime arrests are because 13% of the population. ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/tables/table-43
Maybe you don't like arrests because you think the racist cops are arresting people on racist ideas, so let's look simply at the crimes. 39.6% of all murders were done by blacks in 2019. ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-3.xls
"I myself is a Lifetime NRA member, and this issue has been on my mind for the past year. It’s a complicated issue. There are no simple solutions that everyone would agree on."
True.
"Lastly, I don’t want anyone to be killed by the cops."
That seems like a childish view. I think a person trying to kill a cop is a justified target. They don't deserve to die, but they forfeit their Right to life by trying to take the life of others. I think a person trying to kill an innocent third party is a justified target in the same way.
"No matter there color."
I agree, anyone trying to kill an innocent person, no matter the color of attacker, cop, or target, has forfeited their Right to live.
"It appears too much of America is choosing to ignore people’s plights because it’s not their problem."
Well that's an unsubstantiated claim. How much is too much? 1 person? 1 million people?
"Cops (not all) see black men all threatening on sight."
And yet studies show that cops take longer to fire on black suspects. Cops are less likely to shoot unarmed black suspects. More unarmed white people were killed by cops in 2019 than unarmed black people.
"I have to overly make my voice more cheerful because I’m terrified I might make an officer jumpy. It usually gets better once I talk about my military career. Many have similar backgrounds. I try hard to share this with my white brothers and sisters, but some just say I have nothing to worry about. Wow! It must be nice to be that relaxed around police."
It isn't about being relaxed around police. It's knowing that it is practically statistically guaranteed that any suspect that is obeying the officer's directions is going to live to see another day. I'm afraid of spiders, but I don't check under my bed every night for black widows.
I don't see anyone complaining about 2A when these people are armed. Everyone has a right to bear arms, but where are those politicians that said 2A protest are bad look at all of those racist 2A and other things. But a black person carried a ar-15 is just fine and dandy with them.
Gypsy_Haas People saying “Black Power” is not black supremacy. To people who have been put down, held down, beaten down, and killed by white supremacy it is an expression of self worth. Saying to the world we are black and we matter, whether you want to hear it or not.
I know I’m wasting me breath. If it were your people for generations get killed by the patrollers, the Klan, & cops you would understand, but talking to people who can feel safe in their own skins & argue with a police officer and live to tell the tale (usually white women) is a waste of time. You don’t sweat when the police puts up behind you. Why would you? Your skin threatens no one. I walk down the street in my neighborhood and I have to answer police questions: “where are you headed “ “do you live around here” “do you have ID” “why are you getting defensive sir?” This happens to the point I don’t walk anymore. You won’t get it. Like I said, wasted breath.
Oh how I wish I can be treated just like a white guy. You wouldn’t put up with that for long. I would put $ on that.
Fretchen Thank you for not getting it. You didn’t know me or my experiences, but you think you can tell me that I’m not oppressed based on your (emphasis added) experience. Thank you. Now it get it. 🤦🏿♂️
As if this was my whole life. It’s a snap shot. Everything from “the talk” with my dad growing up in SC. I’m not going to repeat everything that was said to me, but yeah, you know better.
The unjust shooting in the backs of black peoples is also not a thing either. I guess WLM being yelled in my face is nothing. As if white people are being unjustly (emphasis) killed by police at a stupid rate. You have no idea because you aren’t living our lives. Get out of here.
Maybe at a rally but see what happens when a Black guy to tries to open carry somewhere or even better yet, is spotted conceal carrying. 911 calls all around and the cops asking for ID in violation of the second amendment.
Fretchen You know there are facts and data to support right? For example, redlining happened. It is still happening. I’m sure a quick search from respectable sources will support this.
The disproportionate funding‘s for schools. The over policing of communities of color. Death when coming into contact with law-enforcement. All of these our problems that have led to where we are now. So you trying to conjure up the feelings of hate groups is a weak point.
If you don’t see a problem with people dying at the hands of police because they were selling illegal cigarettes, driving in the car, being pulled over because of broken tail light, or sleeping in your bed. If you’re still going to try to look for stupid information to deny what I’m talking about we can just cut this conversation off.
Muna Exactly! POC get shot for legally carrying. The cops asks to see the permit... BAM! Now you’re dead because you reached for what the cop asked for.
It’s maddening when you share something that has happened to you a guy tries to invalidate my experience. I’m sorry, but bad cops are making good cops look bad.
If a person doesn’t think BLM. Then you can’t say ALM. That is said to minimize the black experience. It’s like if a Native American said Native Lives Matter, and I say “No! All Lives Matter!” Your experience isn’t that bad. My experience blah, blah, blah.
Another group treated like crap but you cannot convince the privileged. That’s why there are people in the streets. They can’t walk away from the inconvenient truth. You’re a POC in America. You can’t take it off like a blue police uniform.
Spoiler Alert: He gets shot by his own black Supremacist group.
xd
Joke or serious? Link? Has that been happening?
@@michaelwallace9291 is a joke, obviously.
@@michaelwallace9291 he wasn't joking - NFAC has had two negligent discharges at marches in the past 3 months
here's the most recent one from last week: ruclips.net/video/9X5ik8bEh-Y/видео.html
And here's the first one from about 3 months ago: ruclips.net/video/Uh6PGKq2g3g/видео.html
@@LastEarBender thank you my man
Living in California this video brings tears to my eyes I wish I could openly carry protesting
Blame that on Reagan. They banned open carry after the Black Panthers protested at the state capitol about the actions of the police in the black community.
@@cornydad I could also blame the NRA for supporting him…..
You could. Colion Noir talks about it and it's well documented online but I'm glad they changed their stance but I am angry that they had a stupid stance at an important time.
Another thing that pisses me off is licenses. Licenses originally began to prevent slaves from taking up arms.
I hope for a day that everyone owns a gun
Odd that they are supporting a movement that up until recently stated gun control as a policy goal on their website. In any case, happy to see more folks taking the responsibility of personal security upon themselves.
Over simplify much. Many groups have varying opinions on various topics. Just look at the various views in either political party. A full spectrum.
@@hssnjhnsn We agree that groups have multiple interests. It's a fundamental contradiction to their stated interests nonetheless.
Some idiots are more useful than others!
Alpha Victor I can agree with that. My only gripe was the over simplistic way you framed the group. If you keep looking for the perfect group, you will spend eternity looking.
BLACK LIVES MATTER MOVEMENT AS WELL
How many times has NFAC shot themselves already?
And demonstrated that they are ignorant about how armalite 15’s work. Their ‘leader’ claimed his 20 inch ar was a “bullpup” and that it fires from an open bolt.
@@MitchellCH He's either a terrible feddie plant or a know nothing activist larping trying to false flag.
You can buy a moral patch on the web store Amazon that says “black guns matter”
3:40 “A gun is just something that I grab every day and bring with me hoping that nothing would happen but if had to ever come to that situation then at least that option is open” Amen to that. Funny enough I think 99% of cops think exactly the same thing when they start their patrols.
Trying to make it about race again. If you aren't breaking the law then you probably won't have any problem no matter what your color. If you have an encounter with the police you need to do as they ask and that should increase your chances of not getting shot no matter what your color. Know your rights, and know how to exercise them responsibly. Also, understand that police officers are just trying to do a job, it isn't personal.
A dude with a victim mentality like that is not going to go to far with his message. I believe every American has a right to bear arms. An armed society is a peaceful one.
An armed society with shared values is a peaceful one. What we have now is a powder keg because of these psychopath communists doing their best to divide, conquer, and destroy.
@@remyllebeau77 agreed
You cant impose much on a community that is armed, this is why its taken us longer than a decade in the middle east. If everybody is armed, its almost impossible to control the population.
I am for gun Rights. Their raised fist, which is about racism, is what I keep an eye out.
"anti racism" activism today is only in name. It's racist.
I’d suggest you look further into that so you don’t sound foolish.
Not really racism, it is communism they are just using skin color as a cover.
@@woodchuck003 I would agree to that.
@@chris77jay77 OK, the are Black Supremacists and Communist. Both use the raised fist.
It does seem odd that there are people onstage at a (presumably) public location singing about how they live in a police state. If true, their cops suck.
The "call and response" chants at protests are super cringey.
They are designed to attract attention and publicity, so they make sense from that perspective. They are trying to be provacative.
Filthy Capitalist I wish we didn’t have to do them. Some don’t need to prove that they matter. Not hard to understand.
But they're edgy when they have swear words in them...
Tyler Durden It gets your attention. Otherwise, people just walk by and go back to their safe homes. While we get stopped and frisked... etc.
What’s edgy is the unjust killings. I’m shocked at what shocks people. Words vs needless death.
@@hssnjhnsn I appreciate your reply.as a conservative in New Zealand its all really confusing.The Ben Shapiro's of the world have statistics and surveys and I'm sure theres some truth to what he says, but I'm not completely convinced.
Puh-leeeeze. All citizens have the same rights.
That's exactly what the guys they interviewed were saying.
“Is it a good thing to be helpless?”
Fantastic
"A gun is a tool, YOU make its purpose, if you use it for target practice, if you use it for hunting its purpose is to hunt." - An African American gun owner.
Doesn’t train enough I guess, forgot to chamber a round there 😂
I noticed lol
Also, he uses pine trees for for a back stop... I call shenanigans 🤪
@@SGT_Fon I'm assuming he has a few acres back there with some hills behind those trees. At least, I hope this is the case.
Him and the mclosky's aren't very good representations for gun owners, but nevertheless, if they can defend themselves with a gun, anyone can.
Maybe he has to save bullets since Walmart can't sell them to you...
How incompetent is your editing department if they don't even turn down the ear splitting screeching from the girl with a megaphone?
So if I "thumbs up" this video, am I agreeing with gun rights for all or the riots and black supremacy stuff??
If I "thumbs down" the video because am I disagreeing with the blm narrative am I also disagreeing with gun rights are for all?....
Damnit that's a really good point. That cheeki bastards
"we need a third option"
As Ice-T put it, the second amendment isn't for hunting, it's for defending yourself against the government
Yeah
Factual inaccuracy. Mr. Castile was told to not reach for the permit and was overly eager to get it and that's what caused (former) Officer Saenz to draw and shoot.
Hell yeah. 2A for all!
I always advise people who carry a weapon for protection to read "In The Gravest Extreme" by Masaad Ayoob.. Then read it again. You don't have to thank me, thank Mas
"Black power in the city".... should be "citizen power".....the tax payers, the people, black or white, on which shoulders the country stay
I'm so glad to know these folks are out there doing the work!!!!
As soon as I heard the chant "Middle finger to the law." I am done listening. You want to operate outside the law, beware of what you wishing for.
If you want to see how lawless environment feels like for an evening or two get a good DM/storyteller in WoD game. It will put side by side society with laws and society without them, emphasizing how scary it is without laws.
No one is saying that there shouldn't be any laws, they want the police to respect every person and hold the life of that person as equal to theirs, but they don't,the police have historically been an oppressive force to the black and brown people of the US and many police think that they are above the law, they perform illegal searches,harass and annoy the people they should be protecting,so FUCK THE POLICE.
And I mean that from the bottom of my heart,the police are too powerful and they need to be checked.
@@hannibalgray Libertarians have a problem with police because they enforce victimless crimes, assault people, and steal through civil asset forfeiture. Other people have a problem with police because the police stop them from getting away with theft and violent crimes. Aggression against person and property is wrong regardless of whether you have a badge and regardless of your skin color.
@@hannibalgray "No one is saying that there shouldn't be any laws" - sure, but when a crowd chants "Middle finger to the law" those people declare that they actively will ignore the law (unless they are a very special group that don't ignore if they cam people whom they told to "fuck off"). For them the law does not exists.
If I am forced geographically to play their game, by their rules (or lack of them), chances of blood loss are very high, don't you think?
Yeah, there is a lot in this video that is NOT “Reason”-able.
I hate how this blm stuff gets Reason hard lol
I hate how ignorant people like to post stupid comments "lol"
@@corpsiecorpsie_the_original what do you think is stupid about my post?
Way to many clips os women screaching threw megaphones made this video unwatchable.
more guns, less violence. stay safe. everyone.
I didn't even know that this was happening in my city, love this channel
Great coverage and letting them speak.
No one recoils at the sight of ANYONE, regardless of ethnicity, lawfully carrying a firearm except for those that would take it away from you. As a law abiding citizen, it is your RIGHT!
Garner wasn't choked out for selling lose cigarettes.
Police arrived to investigate a fight.
He did not comply with orders.
We may not see eye to eye on every issue but the fundamental right to protect yourself is something I’m glad we can agree on.
Good because cops are not saving them
Truth 💯
As a non a American. I think every law abiding citizen should own a gun responsibly and safely. I mean look at roof Koreans they upheld their rights to defend their lives and property.
I’m glad black people are exercising there 2nd amendment freedoms !!!
RUclipsr Colion Noir has a great channel related to 2a, really like his stuff
You cant impose much on a community that is armed, this is why its taken us longer than a decade in the middle east.
If everybody is armed, its almost impossible to control the population.
My father was an NRA member. He was a WWII veteran; and I was a Vietnam veteran 69-70. We were both gung-ho pro Americans. For us America could do no wrong as a just government. After reviewing the collected history of the post civil war up through the Jim-crow era and now, I never realized how much the US government was loath to recognize the same equality and benefits to non-whites as to whites in Americans.
The guy from the beginning needs a new target, let's start a gofundme.
I hope you mean gofundme not go find me.
If you are offering for people to find you to offer yourself as a target that is a really bad idea.
MAY RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE NEVER AGAIN HARM UNRIGHTEOUS PEOPLE AND MAY RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE NEVER AGAIN HARM RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE.
Damn right!👏🏿👏🏿
Go exercise that 2A my guys. I'm happy to see anyone exercise their 2A rights regardless of race or political affiliation.
They need to make another Deacons for Defense movie.
Are the guns for protecting the community from its own tyrants?
You’re always your own first responder.
3:48 he stays strapped with that vape... ready to blow some MAD CLOUDS
You guys should've invited Colin Noir in your video.
As a libertarian, I agree that we should defund the police.
For a channel called Reason you'd think you wouldn't phrase it as "black" gun rights 🤷♂️
Huh?
I think they were meaning that it is a black movement for gun-rights, not a movement for special gun-rights for blacks. It is a poorly worded title though.
They hyphenated "gun-rights". It's clear - you may be illiterate, though.
We already have black gun rights...they're the same as white gun rights. It's called the 2nd Amendment. PERIOD.
Alot more nicer when the playing field is equal ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Cute propaganda but I'm immune.
There were two main subjects in this video. The thinner man was at Lobby Day in downtown Richmond and from what I gathered, he was completely welcomed. I'm not sure if the bigger guy was there, but I hope he goes this time. Gun owners aren't afraid of black people with guns, because "gun owners" is a group of people that includes black people. The ones who don't want it are the people in power (like mom's demand action) who can't stand the idea that other people are capable of protecting themselves and their rights.
Cops haven't saved any lives out here in Lewiston
Middle finger to the law? No law, no liberty.
350 people are californian politicians scared of the black panthers
Okay but the young lady near the beginning, was her top on upside down?
If police ordered you to do something you do it. It in your interests. If don't like something take it to court
Thank you Reason great video!!!!!!!!!!!
ASIAN PEOPLE, ASIAN EUROPEAN PEOPLE. ASIAN AFRICAN PEOPLE, ASIAN AMERICAN PEOPLE, ASIAN OTHER PEOPLE, AFRICAN PEOPLE, AFRICAN ASIAN PEOPLE, AFRICAN AMERICAN PEOPLE, AFRICAN EUROPEAN PEOPLE, AFRICAN OTHER PEOPLE ALL NEED TO START BEING ETERNALLY NONVIOLENT, NOT JUST ONE OR A FEW OF THEM.
You can take the media from movies to music and the stereotypes that they portray there to have people painted as a certain picture when you’re out there just carry-on with your constitutional rights same goes Many other nationalities. This is why People have to learn that a movie or a game or a video or music it is just that you don’t have to go out there and pretend that everything you see is the way your life Is
Dear United States of America.
IT IS NOT ABOUT "PUBLIC" SAFETY.
IT IS ALL ABOUT THEM BEING SAFE FROM US, SHOULD WE DECIDE TO FINALLY SAY "NO MORE" AND GO AFTER THE TRAITORS ON CAPITOL HILL AND IN THE WHITE HOUSE.
2A for all. And that's it. But we must get rid of the preconceptions that live in are own mind's cause it holds us back from moving forward together
i am glad to see black brothers and sisters arm up wit' guns.
I lately hear rich out of touch woman on tv talking about "oh they will do gun control if black people start buying guns" despite the history being verrrrrrry raciest. I hope more black people get more guns
Protection is one thing, but it’s hard to believe that’s the only reason why a lot of the people in this video are carrying. Looks more like intimidation given their posture and rhetoric.
American 1761 1761 Thanks for the thought provoking response.
Oh so basically using the same playbook YT people used on Black folks for 400yrs running?
I guess the Proud Boys, Klan and Oathkeepers are just wee boyscouts?
Sure hope they don't all vote for the politicians that will seek to disarm them.
Everyone who votes for the Republicans or Democrats will be.
I bought my guns to defend against all evil no matter race.
6:38 is the reason I quit my NRA Life membership
Law abiding Black people buying guns and supporting more fun ownership? As a black man often ostracized for owning guns, I never thought I'd see the day.
I applaud goodguys/gals exercising their right to keep and bear arms...regardless of race. Unarmed people are subjects, armed people are citizens. Humans have a natural-born right to defend themselves, and to possess and carry the means to to effect that defense.
The Bill of Rights is for EVERYONE 😁👍
Now i am all for everyone that can pass a background check being armed. But not a fan of someone walking down the road with a rifle while wearing a communist symbol marching with a group that has caused billions in damage and attacked countless police. Tearing down statues that do not belong to you is a crime. You want those statues down thats fine. Vote on it. Have them taken down. Destroying property that isnt yours just makes you a criminal. The police that murder people need to go to prison but so do the people that attack any random cop just because they are a cop. One crime will never justify another short of all out war. Bringing a civil war to the US would be a bloodbath. We have more guns than people and anyone that wants to push for that war or violent revolution is asking for trouble. All BLM has done is make people more racist than they have been in a long time. You want to make people hate your cause all you have to do is piss them off. MLK would be disgusted by what blm does.
Agreed.
“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to ‘order’ than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice,” King wrote. “[W]ho constantly says: ‘I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action’; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a ‘more convenient season.’ Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection."
Martin Luther king jr would not agree with you at all, because your the same white moderate he is described as a greater stumbling block to justice then the KKK.
@@yurimikhail6907 So because I dont want violent terrorists walking down the road with rifles as they force their beliefs on everyone else... I am like the KKK. I hope you learn to step back and see the big picture some day.
@@plaid13 "I am like the KKK." No... you're worse. Remember Reverend Marthin luther king jr described the white moderate as "greater stumbling block." You would've opposed Kings marches as being too violent and wonder "why don't they just vote." You'd opposed the White's only counter sit In by black activists and yell "that's illegal!" And you'd definitely oppose Black Panthers open carry of fire arms despite it being legal in the State of California and scream "TERRORISTS!"
@@yurimikhail6907 lol wow you are a fool. Black panthers were not terrorists. But BLM/antifa are. They destroyed cities and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damages. They killed dozens of people in the riots. They took over parts of cities and chased out everyone else. They are terrorists. If you do not think so you are just a fool. I dont judge people by race I judge them by what they do. When they are out destroying cities fuck em they are not protesting they are rioting. Walking around armed during a riot trying to force their beliefs on people = terrorist.
Unemployment, divorce, depression, suicide, pandemic, but everyone needs to have a gun.
That is interesting!
Whatever opinions you have about their affiliations, these people (in the video) are safer from coercion knowing they are armed citizens of the US and that's the point of the video.
We talking more about protection, and a part of that protection involves arms but this is about black folks defending themselves bc there is thin blue line between love and hate.
It's always good to see good people doing all they can to stand up for themselves and their rights.
The best way to perpetuate racism is to separate the races. It's not a gun rights movement it's a black gun rights movement, It's not a Church it's a black Church. Way to go Reason for strengthening Racism.
I have bin going to gun store and gun shows since I was 15 or 16 I am 74 now. I never saw a lot of black people
But gun shows today their are a lot of black people today. I notice who is at the gun store and shows and now the black people represent their culture in numbers. Also I belong to 2 gun clubs I see more there. PS I am a white.