Photo: Rapper Killer Mike (Getty Image)
While students and activists geared up to march in
Washington, D.C., and across the country in support of new restrictions on the
Second Amendment, rapper Killer Mike warned that gun control is way the
progressive left can return black Americans to slavery.
In an interview with NRATV’s Colion Noir, Killer Mike
explained how the left equates gun control with progress and observed, “[They
are] going to progress us into slavery.”
In the lead-up to the March 14 school walk out for gun
control, Killer Mike said he told his kids, “I love you, but if you walk out
that school walk out my house.”
“You can’t continue to be the lackey,” the Atlanta-based
rapper and business owner said. “You’re a lackey of the progressive movement
because you have never disagreed with the people who tell you what to do.”
Noir pointed out how celebrities like George Clooney
and Steven Spielberg pledged $500,000 to Saturday’s gun control march.
“Celebrities often don’t know what to do. They’re told
what to do,” Killer Mike said, explaining how a famous rapper, who’s a friend
of his, felt pressured into doing an anti-gun promo. Killer Mike told his
friend that he’s very pro-Second Amendment” and that it is about
the children for him — after a shooting on his daughter’s college campus
(Savannah State University); “I talked to my wife and daughter after that, the
decision was we’re going to go to Savannah, she’s going to get a gun and train
more.”
“We’re raising a generation of kids where everyone gets’
a trophy. But in real life, everyone doesn’t get a trophy,” Killer Mike said.
“In real life, the cops don’t come on time.
He observed that defending the Second Amendment is an
issue where a division arises between people who might otherwise be political
allies, saying, “We are a gun owning family. We are a family where my sister
farms. We are a family where we will fish, we will hunt, but we are not a
family that jumps on every single thing an ally of ours does because there are
some things we just don’t agree with.”
On June 18, 2015, Breitbart News reported that
Killer Mike reacted to a heinous shooting of nine innocents at Emmanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church by saying, “What happened in Charleston is an act of
terror committed by a terrorist. Simple & plain. I wish those folks in that
church had been armed.”
When some fans reacted adversely, Killer Mike followed up
his comments by talking about the number of citizens who attend NRA meetings
while armed. He said, “I know no one attacks NRA meetings. Wonder why?”
AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second
Amendment columnist for Breitbart News, the host of the Breitbart
podcast Bullets with AWR Hawkins, and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR
Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment,
also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio.
