Blacks Used Guns vs Jim Crow? Now?

What if 2nd Amendment & Right to Bear Arms was a key to blacks surviving Jim Crow? Well, a new study shows how guns helped blacks against lynch mobs. And there’s a reason blacks arm selves now against black gangs …

The WSJ op ed framed the fascinating history lesson this way: “Search on Google for ‘white supremacy’ and ‘gun rights’ and you’ll see plenty of articles claiming the Second Amendment is a tool for white America. But a new paper from Clemson University economists Michael Makowsky and Patrick Warren finds the opposite is true. They say gun ownership helped black Americans defend themselves when no one else would.” The key finding of ‘Firearms and Lynching’ is clear: ‘Rates of Black lynching decreased with greater Black firearm access’ in the Jim Crow South.”

Makes sense. Maybe today’s record rates of innocent black murders would decrease with greater (rather than less) black firearm access in the progressive Democratic inner cities?

Davd Soul