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    Erika D. Smith: Is California ready for more Black people to legally carry guns in public?

    by Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times Jun 29, 2022 6 minutes
    Romeal Taylor, a member of the Minnesota Freedom Fighters, sheds his riffle and tactical vest, only carrying a hand gun, at the meet-and-greet event to connect with the community on Saturday, July 25, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

    Nathan W. Jones leads the Bay Area chapter of the Black Gun Owners Association. But until a few years ago, he wasn't even into guns.

    Then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. And George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sending racial justice protesters into the streets. And white supremacists trashed the U.S. Capitol in the Jan. 6 insurrection.

    Suddenly, it seemed as if America was on the brink. And with the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe vs. Wade on Friday, emboldening a militant array of white Christian nationalists, we clearly still are.

    "I had visions of mobs dragging people through the streets, and something just kind of switched," Jones told me. "We can't rely on anybody else to come and save us. It has to be us."

    So, on Thursday, while many were apoplectic over to uphold the rights of gun owners to carry a loaded weapon in public — throwing gun control laws in California and New York into limbo at a time — Jones was thoughtful.

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