This is just meeting w a real and politically powerful group they definitely need information on, not an endorsement.

Genuinely people need to stop valorizing gun toting because of the black panthers. The line to hold weapons was pushed by eldridge cleaver who infamously became a republican and started selling pants with a penis attached to them. There was a whole split in the party because the MLs recognized they were alienating black mothers in the community by doing so. Im not saying for people to disarm themselves, and its good to know how to use a gun, but its privileged petty b ideology that thinks the solution to the current crisis is because people arent carrying enough guns.