The idea of black people with firearms has always made right-wingers very nervous. BLM could really do us all a service by instituting neighourhood “copwatching” patrols featuring open carry of AR-15s. Within 24 hours we’d see the NRA and GOP politicians scrambling to institute gun controls like Reagan and the California GOP did in 1967:
Don’t hold your breath. The members the NRA really serves are the manufacturers, and the dues-paying individual members are conservative rubes who think they and the Second Amendment are the org’s primary concern.
