Minorities Deserve Protection

This late night rambling attempt at a video reviews the murder of a black man who was doing nothing wrong in the broader context of hate crimes in America. We cannot tolerate hate crimes if we believe the second amendment preserves our right to bear arms against tyrants, especially if they are racist or bigots.

A note on statistics: This is the kind of statistical argument that I don't like to make, and I was exhausted by the time I got around to filming it. Treat the 12,000 personal hate crime estimate as a hasty calculation by proportion. The point is just that we are probably missing a large number of these, and 12,000 wouldn't be unreasonable. I also don't like the statistics available for crime in America for a number of reasons, but this is about as good as I think we can get:

Sources:
2018 FBI UCR: https://ucr.fbi.gov/hate-crime/2018​
2018 BJS Full Report: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/cv18.pdf