Former CNN host Don Lemon is urging “black and brown people” to buy guns and arm themselves as the Trump administration cracks down on illegal immigration.
During a recent podcast appearance, he advised “people who are here legally” to invoke their Second Amendment right.
“Get a license to carry legally because when you have people knocking on your door and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn’t that what the Second Amendment was written for?” Lemon said last week on writer Wajahat Ali’s “The Left Hook.”
Former CNN host Don Lemon is urging black and brown people to buy guns and arm themselves.
“I’m tired of all the mealy mouth. I’m tired of playing nice. I’m tired of people saying turn the other cheek. That’s what got us into this position in the first place,” he continued.
Lemon pushed “black households” and “brown people of all stripes, whether you’re an Indian-American or a Mexican-American” to buy a gun, keep it in a safe place and teach their kids about gun safety.
“I am not condoning or promoting violence,” Lemon opined. “Here’s what I’m saying to black and brown people, to Mexican people, to people who are here legally and who can go and buy a gun legally and have a license to carry legally. Go do it. Why not?”
The former CNN host – who was fired after 17 years at the network following accusations of workplace misogyny – said it might “knock some sense in the heads” of people denying that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have detained American citizens in recent months.
He also accused right-wingers of hypocrisy when it comes to their Second Amendment rights.
Lemon said it might “knock some sense in the heads” of people denying that ICE officers have detained American citizens. REUTERS“The folks on the right say it all the time … ‘Second Amendment, I get to carry my gun!’” Lemon said. “But the moment you [Ali] and I say it, because, you know, a black and a brown brother – it’s like, ‘Oh my gosh! What are they saying?'”
Lemon also argued that immigrants who cross the border illegally are “nowhere near” the highest level of criminality, pointing instead to President Trump’s 2024 conviction for falsifying business records in the historic Manhattan hush-money case.
“We have degrees of criminality in this country, and what Donald Trump did is at the highest level of criminality, except for taking someone’s life,” Lemon said. “Someone who is crossing the border is nowhere near that.”
