I used to provide assistance and transportation to a lot of people in a building for the disabled when I drove a church van that went to this building several times a week. I grew especially protective of one resident, a former Easter Seals Poster Child back in the ‘70s.
When I was shot in a robbery in 2011, a lot of people in the building, all but a few of whom were minorities, told me that I needed to carry a gun and told me people who would sell me one. I don’t know, but I would suspect they were illegal.
They told me that ’(all) black people carry guns.” It is probably true that the majority do in bad neighborhoods. But they are used for protection, not crime. I do not know whether most of the ones I knew carry guns or not, but the ones I do know, they are not into criminal activity at all.
They will support reducing the amount of guns out there. That I’ll grant ya. They will be the first to organize drives to get guns off the street.
But until they start seeing their neighborhoods safe (not like LA, San Diego, Chicago, and other liberal-run cities)—unless things get a whole lot safer, they will never give up their own guns nor their means of procuring them.
If you start taking all these guns from people who feel they need them for protection, while the churches they attend are already supporting law enforcement and Trump—you will lose them as a base.