Buffalo Shooting Highlights How The Second Amendment Targets the Black Community

The burden of America’s long love affair with guns disproportionately affects the Black community and has done so since the Second Amendment was written into law. Carol Anderson is an African-American studies professor at Emory University and the author of, which explores the history of the Second Amendment and how it has kept the Black population helpless and at higher risk of gun violence, especially at the hands of white supremacists.

It fits because of the framing of who black people are. [The shooter] believes in the replacement theory, the one that’s been spewed by Tucker Carlson and by Elise Stefanik about the ways that black people are a threat to the white community, that they’re going to take over, that black people are dangerous, and that they have to be removed, they have to be compelled to leave.

There were over 900 messages to election workers and poll workers were so many times the Second Amendment was invoked as the right that would be used in order to take out these election workers who stole the election. It is the power of anti-blackness, the power of the fear of Black people. The fear of black folks is so intense, that we have been willing as a society to lose our safety and security in our churches, in our grocery stores, in our schools and where we work, just to ensure access to guns. But 400 million guns have not made us a safer society. It has not brought about security.‘There’s No Such Thing As a Lone Wolf.

[Think of] Kyle Rittenhouse with his AR-15 and [was met] by the cops who were like “oh, we are so glad you are here.” Even after he guns down three people killing two of them. He walks back with his hands up to surrender and the cops go right by him. They don’t see a threat. Thepopped up on the radar because of threats he was making in high school. They investigate it and nothing came of it because he wasn’t viewed as a threat.

In terms of gun violence, illegal weapons find their way into poor Black communities and that drives a lot of the violence in those communities. What does that say about the flaws of the Second Amendment?

JosiahBates Simple solution: Automatic death penalty for anyone committing a crime using a gun! But politicians are too stupid to figure that out?

JosiahBates 19 million twitter followers and just a handful of comments, none seemingly supporting your story ha ha. Worthless. I’d bet Time has MAYBE 10,000 followers.

JosiahBates So I'm a racist now for owning a gun? As a scientist and engineer, I *used* to think I had a pretty good handle on logic. Now I'm a bit in doubt.

JosiahBates More division from the press. The same division that lead to this monster killing 10 innocent people. Whatever gets the clicks, I guess. And the votes.

JosiahBates 75-80% of shooting in cities are Black's shooting Black's...Don't care who you are got to stop shooting innocent citizens.

JosiahBates I think crimes went up because the crappy state laws lessening the charges for gang members. They just find the young boys looking for a place to go and have them kill and steal for them. Do something about that!

JosiahBates How can you spout this same old rhetoric! As Americans we experienced how vulnerable civilians can be to rely only on law enforcement to protect our lives. San Bernardino wasn't answering 911 calls during the BLM riots! Report the truth Josiah Bates, this lie is dangerous.

JosiahBates This is absolutely lunacy..

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JosiahBates Unless easy access to guns by way of stores, shows and illegal sales is well regulated and the second amendment thoroughly emasculated, lives will continue to be lost. It's not mental illness or racism or whatever, the root cause. It's the easy access to guns, the real problem.

JosiahBates You mean black people like to shoot each other in greater numbers than anyone else?

JosiahBates time for US gov't to give vouchers to all citizens for firearms just like ukraine.

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