too often i think as marc was saying, that s the case, are you not? yeah. i think it happens far too often. you know like i said this is one of the rare times where we see a black man with a gun and he isn t shot. so the other person s comment, i thank you for not shooting people. we need more cops like you. maybe you should tour and teach a seminar. maybe you should tour. you can t speak for most officers because we re talking about huge systemic problems within our police departments. i ve interviewed 300 police officers across the country who have been involved in shootings. and i asked them about situations where they could have shot and didn t and almost every single one of them has been in those. that s kind of what you re supposed to do. not shooting people is what you re supposed to do. i appreciate you for not shooting people as dee said but why is the law enforcement infrastructure become so normalized with violence that when we re not surprised when police officers sho
control amendment getting mentioned on the senate floor. i want to bring in reverend kenneth blanchard to talk about this. he s a former u.s. marine, a pastor and gun rights activist. he s also the author of black man with a gun. welcome. thank you. first, what s your reaction to what happened here yesterday? i was crushed. america doesn t need anymore tragedy like this. we don t need anymore stuff to happen to us. when you work you want to be safe when you work. this place is as safe as you can get. trouble can happen anywhere. i was grieving for the families. i was worried about my daughter who worked down the street from this place. i was in it. so it s part of my life too. is there anything you think that can be done? i think there are a lot of individuals who would look at this situation and obviously there are a lot of details we don t know but say it s pretty obvious that people who have severe mental and emotional problems and a history of violence should not be a
themselves with the government who held us down with water and attacked us with dogs and would not allow us to eat at their restaurants and could not own guns when fools with sheets on their head were riding across our lawns and murdering us. so we need guns to protect us from the klan? i mean, don t get me wrong, because there s a historical argument there, but it also feels like not in bridgeport, connecticut. or newtown. and joy-ann, helped me put a piece on the grio.com about this debate and the point i was making on the editorial is that this is a piece that is on the nra website, and you put an angry black man with a gun on the website, and there are not a lot of african-americans logging on with regularity and taps into white guys who are then prompted the go get guns. and if that is the person for