Second Amendment supporters might sound like an unlikely ally for Hunter Biden as the president's son appeals his gun conviction.
But that's the advice of CNN political commentator and former Republican presidential campaign staffer Shermichael Singleton, who shared an emotional anecdote Thursday about learning as a youth the value the Second Amendment holds for Black men in the South.
"I remember my grandfather telling us how, in his day, a firearm was the only way a Black man could protect himself and his family against racists who wanted to teach Blacks a lesson," Singleton wrote. "He would say, 'When they realized we had guns and knew how to use them too, they wouldn’t bother us.'"
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The experience never left him. Guns — no matter their caliber or capacity — are a "means to protect and equalize the playing field against any racist or bigot who dared think they had the power and right to trample the rights and liberties of anyone they believed they were superior to," he said.
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Singleton blasted regulations that led to Hunter Biden's felony convictions this week after jurors found him guilty of lying about being hooked on crack on the ATF’s Form 4473. The form allows federally licensed gun sellers to run background checks on prospective buyers.
"This is ironic, to say the least," Singleton noted.
"Nevertheless, Hunter Biden should have never had to answer the drug use question on that form in the first place," he added.
Singleton said the U.S. Supreme Court should weigh in on Hunter Biden's case, because that gun restriction could be unconstitutional. He pointed to a similar case from last year in which a federal appeals court overturned the conviction of a man who received a four-year prison sentence after police officers found marijuana and two loaded guns in his vehicle. He was charged for having a gun while recently being an unlawful drug user. The high court looked at older U.S. laws and found that while there have been rules about the combination of guns and drugs or alcohol, the rules didn't ban former drug- or alcohol users from having a gun later once sober.
"The irony is that it may be Hunter Biden’s case that goes to the Supreme Court and gives the court a say on what I fervently believe is an unconstitutional violation of the Second Amendment — and a ruling on gun rights for those who have used drugs could provide a pathway for those men to have their cases reviewed and statuses changed," wrote Singleton.