Following a number of active shooter incidents, including one at Apalachee High School in Georgia, Flavor Flav, a founding member of Public Enemy, speaks in response.
Rapper Flavor Flav has called on the US to ban all firearms – as he believes “our kids aren’t safe”.
The 66-year-old hip-hop artist who founded Public Enemy claims that “wrong people” have too much access to firearms. Even though he was also accused of attempted murder for shooting his neighbor in 1993, he himself spent time in jail.
But seeing his kids grow up since, Flavor Flav – real name William Jonathan Drayton Jr – has said he has taken time to reflect on what he describes as “an epidemic of gun violence” in the US. The musician has expressed his opinion in a newspaper column today – Independence Day – in the wake of several active shooter incidents, including one at Apalachee High School in Georgia, which saw two children and a teacher die.
“This happens so often, we have started to become numb to it as a society. Our schools aren’t safe and our kids aren’t safe. This is because gun protection laws are weak,” Flav wrote for Newsweek.
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The state’s nine-year-old father added that there is “apid gun violence outbreak with no signs we can stop or change course.” He attributed the lack of gun laws to “domestic errorism” (domestic error). Stop putting a price tag on our children’s heads, the rapper said, adding that no civilian needs a semi-automatic weapon.
Flav himself shot his neighbor in 1993, setting him up for a 90-day sentence in prison. In his article for Newsweek, he claims that he “would know” that guns are “falling into the hands of the wrong people.
“The wrong people are getting guns into the hands of them.” I would be aware. Because of my guns, I was in jail. I ended up on Rikers Island. I speak from personal experience, therefore. Guns and drugs were introduced into Black communities in the past. We were taught that power and drugs were at their core during that time. We all possess firearms. A gun was a necessity to defend yourself from gang wars because of peer pressure. Flav argued that this led to the formation of a system of criminals under the influence of legalized slavery.
Then, he made a comparison between those days and the modern era, which he argued is full of “fear and power.” Fear is a potent, short-term motivator, the star continued. We must change the situation so that it becomes a valuable and beneficial resource. Let our concern for our children outweigh our concern for our neighbor’s neighbor.
Source: Mirror
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