We have an ineligible right to defend ourselves. Gunn is just a tool to make the job easier. Gunn is just a tool to make the job easier. There's nothing for white guy to walk on the ground with his rifle on his back and everything's just fine. When a black person does it, we're a thug, we're an animal. We're about to go stick up a store or something. Lock the loaded. Woo! Dead sinner! I shoot white guns every day. I train the hand-to-hand combat every day, even by myself, when no one's around. I train. Because it may save my life, but one point it may save the lives of whoever's with me. We are marching and organizing to build black power in this city. To build black power in this city! When I talk to people in the African-American community, I hear they want protection. They were some guys that came right in and were shooting protesters and the protesters were saying that they were yelling some racial slurs. And that was when I decided to go back out there. You have this history well before the Civil War of organized black self-defense. In northern communities where black people were free. In the post-Civil War period, the late 19th and early 20th century, you have state officials who basically are in lead with groups like the Ku Klux Klan. I think that situation is mitigated to some extent by the fact that black people in the South are armed and are able to defend themselves. So there's a tremendous push in the 1950s and 1960s for black voter registration. We've got to make sure that they are reached and get into the city to do the voting. The Ku Klux Klan basically decides they are going to go after the people who are registering black voters, intimidate them and kill them. So you have groups beginning to be formed, designed to protect the black community and protect civil rights workers who are registering black voters. The most effective of these, I would argue, was a group called the Deacons for Defense and Justice. The Deacons for Defense and Justice were basically black men who had been veterans of the Second World War or the Korean War. The Panthers were very good at publicity and not particularly good at protecting black communities. The Deacons, on the other hand, is just very silently let it be known. If you try to harm people in our community or the people working with us, it's not going to go very well. We have an ineligible right to defend ourselves. Gun is just something to add grab every day and bring with me hoping that nothing would happen. But if it ever had to come to that situation, then at least the option is open. R-S-E-S! I get the strangest looks when I walk around looking like this. I get the strangest looks more for black people than white people. But then black people all of a sudden you see pride just swel up in their chest when they see me walk around like this. Yes, yes, he gets it. He knows that he has those rights too. I feel like a lot of people when they look at guns, they look at it from a victim's mentality. They look at it as what kind of gun do to me, not versus what kind of gun do for me. You're at a protest that is talking about the inequalities and injustice system and police brutality. And then you mentally have wired yourself to believe that only the cops should have the gun to protect you and other people. And I just thought that that was really ironic. Metal finger to the wrong! Metal finger to the wrong! Well, yeah, there's nothing but white guy to walk the demonstrate with his rifle on his back and everything's just fine. And I already said to the men, man, this side and the other, when a black person does it, we're a thug or an animal. We're about to go stick up a store or something. But when you see these animals and thugs that they like to call us, well armed, well organized, yeah, makes you stop and think. Yeah, these guns aren't just for the races, the KKK, theats, these are also for those rogue police officers, those ones that like to brutalize us and harm us and get away with it. No, we're not doing that anymore. My man, Eric Garner, six years ago, another reason why I had this hat made that says, I can't breathe. Because that's what he said when he was being choked out by police for selling loose cigarettes. It's funny, I got the hat made six years after he said it, and six weeks after George Floyd said it. And there's the whole story about Philando Castell right there. Her baby was in the back seat. He's told him I have a cassette weapon's permit. Show it to me. He reaches for it and the man kills him. Kill them. Where was the NRA then? Silence. Didn't say a damn thing. When you walk around, it's statue. And you see pictures and birthdays and brief descriptions. How many more of these signs would you like to see before it would change your mind that maybe you're responsible for your own protection? One of the most frequent things that I've always heard is that I would be killed by a cop. They believe that a cop's perception of me being armed is going to be the reason why I get shot. I can honestly say traffic stops prior to me being armed or extremely different than when I am armed. And cops are a lot more friendly and a lot more open to communication when the playing fields are the same. Everybody's out here. He's been here. You know what I'm saying? Stop listening to the meanest. I'll listen to that shit. That's how I feel. Yeah, we all hear singing songs about freedom. Almost a month ago, if you noticed, wasn't that many of us out there with guns? Now look at night. Big difference, right? Big difference. A peaceful who are always going to be protected. And that's been my mission. I believe I'm channeling my ancestors. I'm channeling, you know, activists before. You had in the 60s and before a situation where there was little or no help from the federal government protecting your civil rights. That's not the case today. And there's still the issue of how well are you protected? Do you want to totally surrender your ability to protect yourself to others? Basic question, is it a good thing to be helpless? And I say no. You