There are some negatives, but this forces the left wing to think about their own racist claims that only evil whites own guns and that guns must be banned because the "government will protect us." I don't believe Trump is a racist or a neo-Nazi, but we all need to consider that the Second Amendment is not about duck hunting or skeet shooting. We need to consider that the founders of the nation were not a bunch of old stuffed shirts in funny wigs, but were exactly what we today would call a gang of armed revolutionaries. Of course no one would want a revolution (we've been there, done that, twice), but those guys whose pictures are on our money were really revolting in the precise meaning of that word.
One point about owning a gun is that it actually reduces the chance that the owner will use it. The gun owner knows that he has the means of resistance, but he also realizes that using it is an irrevocable step, and one not likely to be taken without extreme provocation.
If blacks or others have guns, so what? If they feel that they must arm themselves as protection against the government, I hope they will never have to use their arms. But the fact that they have them doesn't bother me. They have the same rights as I do, and to confiscate guns owned by blacks or other law-abiding members of minorities would not only be wrong - it would be downright un-American.
Jim
One point about owning a gun is that it actually reduces the chance that the owner will use it. The gun owner knows that he has the means of resistance, but he also realizes that using it is an irrevocable step, and one not likely to be taken without extreme provocation.
If blacks or others have guns, so what? If they feel that they must arm themselves as protection against the government, I hope they will never have to use their arms. But the fact that they have them doesn't bother me. They have the same rights as I do, and to confiscate guns owned by blacks or other law-abiding members of minorities would not only be wrong - it would be downright un-American.
Jim