By Selwyn Duke

They “get bitter” and “cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them,” said Barack Obama in 2008, describing mainly white, working-class voters. But it turns out that some “people who aren’t like them” are like them — in that they’re clinging to weapons, too.

While writing about the Kyle Rittenhouse case last month, I mentioned that there’s an immutable rule of life: “Since ‘Necessity is the mother of invention,’ citizens bedeviled by unrestrained criminals will become de facto law enforcement and do the job the government won’t do.”

This happened with the vigilance committees of the Old West. It happened in Kenosha, where many more residents than just Rittenhouse became armed defenders. Now it’s happening in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, where almost exclusively non-white school students are arming up in “gun-free zones” because they fear violence. 

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