Rapper Killer Mike: ‘I don’t trust black leadership’ on guns by theMarquiseF & kadiatubman
Rapper Killer Mike, who is once again supporting Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential bid, says he doesn’t trust candidates like Sen. Kamala Harris and Sen. Cory Booker who have called for tougher gun laws.
Progressive gun control proposals, like those from Booker, D-N.J., and Harris, D-Calif., include ideas like instituting universal background checks on all firearm purchases, requiring a license for all gun owners and an outright ban on assault weapons. Sanders, who had a mixed record on gun control in deference to his mostly rural constituency in Vermont, came out this year in favor of universal background checks and an assault weapons ban.
"In my community, kids fear fireworks on the Fourth of July because they sound like gunshots," Booker told CNN’s Jake Tapper in May."In communities across the country, from Newark to Charlotte, from San Diego to Chicago, and everywhere in between, Americans are being killed and families are being torn apart. We must do better.”
“If everyone owned guns from day one, it would have been a lot harder to commit acts like slavery and genocide on Native Americans,” Render said. “If you read the book ‘Guns, Germs and Steel,’ it kind of explains to you, you know, why a lot of the wars indigenous people lost was because people came with superior technology and guns.”Story continues“Gun laws affect black people first and worst,” Render said while quoting African-American investigative journalist and civil rights leader Ida B.
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