Virginia pro-gun rally wasn’t white nationalist, it was racially diverse

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Some liberal commentators want us to believe that Second Amendment supporters are all racist white men. Reality belies this narrative.

In the lead-up to Monday’s pro-gun rally in Richmond against Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam and his fellow Democrats’ gun restriction bills, commentators such as Al Sharpton and David Hogg were quick to portray the event as driven by white supremacists, following last week’s arrests of three neo-Nazis in Maryland suspected of planning to cause trouble at the rally.

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