We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again…guns are for everyone. Everyone who wants one and can own one legally. Race, color, religion, sexual orientation…the Second Amendment has no restrictions, qualifiers or competency tests.
A philly.com columnist, Jenice Armstrong, just discovered Myisha McGahee-Wooten who runs an online business that encourages concealed carry and responsible gun ownership:
A 27-year-old divorced mother of two, she has been licensed to carry for three years. McGahee-Wooten, who moved as a child to Philadelphia and now lives in Germantown, also operates an Instagram business called Muslimah Concealed Carry that not only encourages Muslim women to arm themselves but teaches firearm safety.
“She’s responsible in the way that she does it,” said Aliya Khabir, a communications consultant who is also Muslim, female, black, and licensed to carry. “She gives out information about the law in each state and what you should know about a firearm prior to purchasing one.”
What got McGahee-Wooten started carrying a firearm?
McGahee-Wooten, who works for the U.S. Postal Service, toyed with the idea for years before actually applying for a gun permit and purchasing a firearm.
She sometimes thinks of her ex-husband, Bobby Jenkins, who was killed in an armed robbery in February while making a pizza delivery, and wonders how things might have gone down had he been armed.
“I’m standing up against somebody hurting me or somebody else,” McGahee-Wooten told me this week. “I’m standing up against somebody taking my life. I’m being brave and protecting myself.”
That’s every American’s right, as the Constitution makes perfectly clear. May it ever be thus.