The Second Amendment protects American citizens’ right to keep and bear arms. The vast majority of gun enthusiasts are white conservatives, but this right applies to ALL citizens. And, as such, the Black Panthers have for decades enjoyed their right to bear arms too.
That’s on full display in Philadelphia at the moment, where members of the Black Panther Party have been vocal that they are determined to violently resist any ICE incursion into their city, and that they will not let what happened in Minneapolis happen to them. As a member quoted in The Philadelphia Enquirer confirms: “If we were there, not a single person would have gotten touched.”
