{"id":108980,"date":"2019-05-02T13:05:14","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T17:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=108980"},"modified":"2019-05-02T13:05:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T14:09:32","slug":"maj-toure-phillys-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/maj-toure-phillys-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly&#8217;s City Council &#8211; He Needs Your Support!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84857\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84857\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\" class=\"size-large wp-image-84857\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure-1024x622.png\" alt=\"BGM\" width=\"1024\" height=\"622\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure-1024x622.png 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure-150x91.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure-400x243.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure-768x467.png 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/MajToure.png 1132w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-84857\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maj Toure, the founder of Black Guns Matter, is now running for Philadelphia&#8217;s City Council.\u00a0 He needs your help!\u00a0 (<em>Photo: Black Guns Matter<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/black-guns-matter-to-sponsor-shot-show-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\">Maj Toure<\/a> is running for a seat on Philadelphia\u2019s City Council. And, I haven\u2019t been this excited about a candidate running for office in, well, never.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t live in Philly, so I can\u2019t vote for the man, but what I can do is help spread the word about his candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>Not familiar with Maj Toure? He is the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blackgunsmattermajtoure\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\">Black Guns Matter<\/a>, an organization dedicated to educating inner city folk and minority communities about their 2A rights and responsibilities. BGM covers everything from live fire training to conflict resolution and de-escalation tactics to the basics of self-defense and concealed carry law.<\/p>\n<p>Toure\u2019s genius is that he sees the right to keep and bear arms as a linchpin for a greater awakening, as a way to get people to drop their nanny-state mentality so that they may embrace their citizenship as the founders and framers intended.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you start paying attention to the Second Amendment, you start having more of a value for all of the other amendments,\u201d Maj told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/black-gun-ownership_us_5a33fc38e4b040881bea2f37\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\">Huffpo in 2017<\/a> with respect to Black Guns Matter.<\/p>\n<h2>SEE ALSO:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/black-guns-matter-to-sponsor-shot-show-2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\">Black Guns Matter to Sponsor SHOT Show 2018<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cThat creates good citizens: people who are politically active, who are going to their school board meetings, who are seeing what\u2019s up with budgets, talking to their city councils, talking to their state representatives,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re getting them involved politically on most angles.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officially, Maj is running as a Solutionary Libertarian Candidate. \u201cSolutionary\u201d is Toure\u2019s code for being a civically-minded problem solver. Somebody who gets things done.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaj Toure is running to address the blatant disregard for the will &amp; ideas of REAL people. We know that innovation &amp; fresh ideas always come from the grassroots, boots-on-the-ground voices of Solutionarys. We don\u2019t revolve around the problem. We implement solutions,\u201d says his campaign website.<\/p>\n<p>Toure already has the support of Gun Owners of America, which said in a recent<a href=\"https:\/\/gunowners.org\/maj-toure-for-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\"> press release<\/a>, \u201cGOA personnel have gotten a chance to get to know Maj, sharing the stage with him at speaking events and engaging with him at his Solutionary Roundtables. And we know firsthand, that Maj is a Second Amendment warrior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGOA is backing Maj, and you should too,\u201d the gun-rights group added.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve reached out to Maj to do an interview and a follow-up story on his candidacy. If you have questions for Maj about BGM or about his political agenda, put them in the comment section below and I can bring them up during our interview.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Maj on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/blackgunsmattermajtoure\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\">Facebook<\/a> or on the website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.majforphilly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"maj-toure-phillys-city-council\" title=\"Black Guns Matter Activist Maj Toure is Running for Philly's City Council - He Needs Your Support!\">MajForPhilly.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\">***<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMaj Toure is running to address the blatant disregard for the will &amp; ideas of REAL people. 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