The Baltimore Sun isn’t exactly the publication most of us think of when we start trying to name anti-gun news outlets, but I’ve read enough from it over the years that I wouldn’t exactly push back if someone did name them. The only reason they wouldn’t be higher on my personal list is simply that everyone else is so much worse.
But the Sun had a story that, frankly, I’d like to see more of.
It features a black woman who is a firearm trainer and her love of our nation’s flag.
It sounds like a contradiction, but Charneta Samms, a firearms instructor in Taneytown, said she is looking for women to train who “are not into guns.”
Her students are not typically gun collectors or security guards, but those who want to gain a sense of confidence and assurance by carrying a loaded firearm and being skilled in its use.
“My ladies are building skills, earning marksmanship levels, trying new firearms, shooting steel, competing, laughing and encouraging the next woman who walks through the door.”
She’s become something of a specialist in her field.
“Women come to me with all kinds of motivation,” she says. “They often want their own first line of defense.”
Samms, 52, was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She grew up in Newport News, Virginia. A graduate of Morgan State University, where she earned a degree in industrial and systems engineering, she has a master’s degree from Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia.
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Samms says she treasures the U.S. flag and all that it represents.
“The American flag to me is representative of freedom. It’s such an important thing; it’s been a dominant part of my life,” she said.
This is America. The flag and the gun are both symbols of freedom, and Samms is clearly a solid ambassador for both.
That’s important to remember at a time when it’s so fashionable to take a massive dump on not just the United States, but everything it represents. Some people think that Samms should despise the flag because she’s a black woman, who think that this country is nothing but evil because of the sins of the past.
And to be fair, we’re not perfect. We weren’t 250 years ago, and we’re not today. We never will be.
But we’re the country most dedicated to trying just the same. We’ve righted wrongs that weren’t ours to right. We’ve defended the world from tyranny, and we defend ourselves from it via the Second Amendment.
Our flag and our guns. Those are two things you don’t really find other places. Most other nations look at our blatant nationalism with askance or alarm, all without realizing that it was that nationalism that led to us being there at Belleau Woods or Omaha Beach. It’s the love of the nation that makes us more.
And it’s our guns that make it so we won’t have to see our beloved nation crumble into something the Founding Fathers wouldn’t recognize.
This piece about Samms highlights one woman among thousands who teach others to handle firearms, to use their right to keep and bear arms to keep themselves and others safe. And it highlights a woman who isn’t afraid to tell the world she loves our nation’s flag for what it represents.
If only the media would share more stories like this. The American people deserve to hear them.
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