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MikeGunner / Pixabay When Slate covers anything to do with guns, you usually know you’re about to see a trainwreck. After all it’s not like most of those who write for that particular publication care anything about guns or gun rights. They lean leftward hard and aren’t afraid to show it. That’s obvious by the numerous anti-gun rights pieces they’ve run over the years.
Yet the demographics of gun owners are changing. More and more women and minorities are arming up and finding value in the Second Amendment. For publications like Slate, that may mean adjusting their coverage of gun rights.
For example, writing a fairly positive piece on black gun ownership ? Gun violence kills thousands of Americans every year, and that pain is especially sharp in the nation’s Black communities. For a generation, a lot of Black political leadership has called for more guns to be taken off the street and has been closely aligned with gun control advocates. But a growing number of Black Americans seem to be choosing a different approach. During the Trump administration, Black gun ownership rates rose, and in 2020, of all demographic groups, Black Americans saw the sharpest increase in gun purchases at the start of the year. For people like Kenn Blanchard, advocating for Black gun ownership has been a crusade for decades. After serving in the military and holding a series of jobs in law enforcement, Blanchard branded himself the “Black Man With a Gun,” with a book, a website, and now a podcast with that name. He rejects the idea that gun control will make Black communities safer and has made it his mission to encourage Black Americans to view gun ownership as an important element of self-defense. On Friday’s episode of A Word , I spoke with Blanchard about how he reconciles his gun advocacy with his faith, and how he thinks Black gun owners can make themselves safer from police violence. Our conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity. Kenn, you’ve heard statistics about how the U.S. leads industrialized countries in gun violence and deaths, how Black […]
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