Last year saw a historic surge in gun purchases. As local governments have slashed police-department funding, implemented cashless bail, and declined to prosecute gun crimes, the results have been predictable: surging violent crime and lawless streets. So, it’s no surprise that law-abiding adults who actually do follow local regulations want the right to self-defense. They deserve that right. Amir Locke was one of these Americans. But he nonetheless died at the hands of police while exercising his Second Amendment rights.
In the early morning of Wednesday, February 2, Locke was sleeping under a blanket on a couch in his cousin’s apartment. Minneapolis police footage shows Locke awaking in a panic as police, searching for a murder suspect, burst in. In just ten tragic and confusing seconds, the police kicked the couch, causing the blanket to fall away, revealing that Locke had a gun. The police, seeing the gun, fired three times and killed him.
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