• frezik@midwest.social
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    11 months ago

    No.

    It was a straightforward matter of using guns responsibly such as financially supporting ranges and providing training. Things that should happen in a society that’s going to have guns around. Stopping black people from having guns started popping up when the Black Panthers realized they had gun rights, too, and started using them. That was much, much later in the organization’s history, and is when they started being directly involved in politics.

    Now it’s so deep down the right-wing rabbit hole that its original mission is barely worth talking about, even though they still technically do it.