Nine months after seeing his nephew and bandmate Takeoff shot to death as an innocent bystander during an argument outside a Houston bowling alley, Migos rapper Quavo has gone on a gun-control offe…
“I feel like your calling comes at the least expected times,” he said, according to. “You don’t think nothing is going to happen [to you]. I have to do something about it, so it won’t happen to the masses — especially in our culture. I don’t want this to happen to the next person. I want to knock down these percentages.”, the second highest single-year tally on record — down 1.5 % from 2021, when 48,830 people died of gunshot wounds.
Quavo joined a panel discussion Wednesday alongside Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, Rep. Lucy McBath — whose activism was propelled after the shooting death of her teenage son — and Greg Jackson of the Community Justice Action Fund. “I’m a survivor — I was there, so it could have been both of us gone,” he told GMA’s Rachel Scott. “So I look at this as, me being alive, I have to do this job make sure everybody’s aware that losing my nephew — you could be in the same position.
He said that after Takeoff’s death, he often asked himself “How do we use [guns] safely? And how do you keep them out of the hands of people that make bad decisions? I’m kind of in a half-and-half place,” he told the AP. “Police have guns, and unfortunately, some of the people in our culture and loved ones have been lost to police brutality. It’s all about choices and how we can put a filter on who can use these guns.