Are growing gun sales to Black Americans about freedom, fear, or both?
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.
, 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.Jason Johnson: You’re a military veteran, a former law enforcement officer, and guns have been a part of your work for years. What led you from law enforcement work to being a gun rights advocate?Entrepreneurism, actually.
I actually learned how it feels to be Noah. When you want to build an arc and it never rains, and then when it rains, everybody’s running to you. I had been saying this stuff to ministers, I had been talking to my fellow pastors, and they were like, “Yeah, yeah, you do you, Kenn. I’m not going to do this thing.” And then now they were, “Oh, yeah, man, we’re going to the range next week. You want to come with us?” Or “I just got this whole police detachment to work undercover in my church.
I used to think that if you knew that they were the Black Codes, that behind many of the whole civil rights and the gun issue that we talk about now—we assume it’s some good ol’ boy somewhere—has a basis in Black history. If you talk about the Dred Scott decision, they wanted to deny Dred Scott the right to keep and bear arms, the right to citizenship. If you want to go to, then you’re talking about the Black gun rights, voting rights, of a crew of people who were denied.
Then you know about the Great Migration, of how our people left the South and went to Detroit and to New York and all those places where there was industry. And to be more civilized, our relatives, our matriarchs, didn’t want us to get in any trouble, so they said leave the guns behind, and we started becoming these undercover brothers with our firearms. We still served in the military, we still were police officers, we still hunted.
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