US gun rights centered around race and whites controlling blacks: Activist
One reason that the US Constitution provided Americans the right to keep and bear arms is centered on race and giving whites the power to control and kill blacks, an African American activist in Washington says.
“I just think America’s mindset is still racially divided and there’s a fear out there that if they start controlling guns, somehow that will leave white America vulnerable,” said Matthew Fogg, a retired Chief Deputy at the US Marshals Service.
“I believe that is the real impetus behind all of this gun control and why it is the way it is and why it seems that America still is not fully ready to relinquish her rights to guns and say we can trust the government to protect us,” said Fogg, who is also the Executive Director of the Congress Against Racism & Corruption in Law Enforcement.
“All of this centers around race” and giving whites the power to “control negroes,” he added.
He made the comments following an editorial in one of the largest circulating newspapers in the US described America’s gun violence as “a moral outrage and national disgrace” following the mass shootings in California and Colorado.
The New York Times editorial, titled "End the Gun Epidemic in America," was published on Saturday in the front page of the newspaper, calling for greater gun control across the US.
The editorial comes days after 14 people were fatally shot at a social services center in San Bernardino, California, and two weeks after a shooting at an abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, which left three people dead.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in the United States every year, a number that includes accidental discharge, murder and suicides, which are on the increase.
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