SHAUN KING

If I've learned anything over the past two years of the Black Lives Matter movement, it's that the right to bear arms, a constitutional right protected by America's Second Amendment, does not apply equally to whites and African-Americans. Quite the contrary. Being seen with a gun — fake or real, licensed or not, or even being suspected of having a gun or something that may not even be a gun — while black, in the presence of anybody who isn't black, particularly if they are police officers, is damn near a death wish.

This is not hyperbole.

I encourage you to perform the following test:

Ask your white friends or co-workers, on a scale of 1-10, how nervous would they be, with 1 being not at all and 10 being on the verge of a panic attack, if they possessed a legally owned firearm in the presence of police during a routine traffic stop.

Now, ask your black friends or co-workers the very same question.

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