KING: Second Amendment protections don’t apply equally to African-Americans

[MrScorpio]

SHAUN KING

If I've learned anything over the past two years of the Black Lives Matter movement, it's that the right to bear arms, a constitutional right protected by America's Second Amendment, does not apply equally to whites and African-Americans. Quite the contrary. Being seen with a gun — fake or real, licensed or not, or even being suspected of having a gun or something that may not even be a gun — while black, in the presence of anybody who isn't black, particularly if they are police officers, is damn near a death wish.

This is not hyperbole.

I encourage you to perform the following test:

Ask your white friends or co-workers, on a scale of 1-10, how nervous would they be, with 1 being not at all and 10 being on the verge of a panic attack, if they possessed a legally owned firearm in the presence of police during a routine traffic stop.

Now, ask your black friends or co-workers the very same question.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/king-amendment-doesn-protect-african-americans-equally-article-1.2738379

[Thinkingabout]

1. Actually was told in the doctor's office white people could afford long rifles, black people

could not afford them, I gave him a stare and don't plan on returning. Dumb just dumb.

[MrScorpio]

2. What did he mean by "afford?"

That's a weird statement.

[Coolest Ranger]

4. I know excatly what he means by it

I see it all the time down here in the south when white people all of a sudden start drawing up when I come near acting as if I'm going to steal from them or do something to them that makes them want to scream help

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5. The cost of long rifles.

[bluestateguy]

3. Indeed

I have no doubt at all that Trump and his supporters would not hesistate to confiscate guns from blacks, Hispanics, Muslims and political opponents in door to door raids.

[Thinkingabout]

6. Yes, there was restrictions after the Black Panthers carried weapons but not

When militia, etc carried weapons.

[Gothmog]

7. K&R