On Friday, my organization, CURE, sponsored a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington to bring attention to the importance of rigorously defending the right of all Americans, guaranteed under the Second Amendment of our Constitution, to own a gun.

Our event provided a forum for black leaders from the world of politics and public policy in Washington, from the business community, from academia and from the clergy, to express their deep concern about efforts currently underway to limit our God-given and constitutional individual right of self-defense.