Sean “Diddy” Combs has been a big deal for quite a while. Most of the time, I don’t really follow that genre of music, but even I know who he is. He’s a big freaking deal.
Or was.
Now, he’s a punchline after the police disclosed that during a search of his home, they found 1,000 bottles of baby oil, which is just freaky. Then again, his freaky stuff was part of the problem.
Mostly, we here at Bearing Arms have stayed out of it. Why? Because we don’t cover the entertainment industry unless someone says something idiotic about guns.
I’m about to get into it, though, because of what’s being talked about during his trial.
Federal prosecutors have released disturbing images seized from Sean “Diddy” Combs’ Los Angeles mansion, shedding light on what Homeland Security agents claim was a house of drugs, weapons and sex-fueled marathons dubbed “freak offs.”
Per TMZ, the photos, introduced as evidence in the music mogul’s ongoing federal trial, show AR-15-style rifles, pistols, pump-action shotguns, and bags of ketamine scattered throughout his $61.5 million Holmby Hills estate. Some guns were photographed next to ordinary household items, like a bag of tortilla chips. One room contained over 900 bottles of Astroglide and 200 bottles of baby oil, neatly arranged in cabinets and storage boxes.
Now, Combs isn’t facing any weapons charges, which means the guns were lawfully owned so far as I can tell.
However, Combs has a history that’s worth talking about.
See, while he may not have spoken directly on Second Amendment issues, he’s been linked to a lot of politicians who have.
Combs’ network of high-profile politicians includes a who’s who in national and local politics, including presidential candidates, members of Congress and mayors.
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Over the years, Combs has primarily supported Democratic causes, including Rock the Vote and launching the voter-education drive Vote or Die campaign in 2004.
Fellow Democrats, including Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama, and New York City Mayor Eric Adams, have also crossed paths with the music mogul.
Harris had posted her thanks to Combs on X, formerly Twitter, during her first run for the White House after he hosted a town hall on racial inequality and COVID-19 in April 2020. The event also featured appearances by Rev. Al Sharpton and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
Now, this story also ties Combs to President Donald Trump, but it’s worth noting that much of that predates Trump’s entry into politics. Before then, he was just a famous billionaire with a flair for showing off his wealth, which is kind of on-brand for many in the Hip Hop industry, too.
Donald Trump would likely be an icon for many of them were he still just a businessman.
But the politicians that he has spent time supporting, people whom he supports because of their politics, are all vehemently anti-gun. They’ve all run on gun control or spoken out emphatically for gun control measures, including assault weapon bans, and here’s Diddy with an arsenal that his buddies would prefer to ban.
It’s possible he just disagrees with them on this issue, but he never said so.
Instead, it’s far more likely that, like much of what else he’s accused of doing, he figured the rules simply didn’t apply to him.
Far too many people in the realm of the rich and powerful figure they can get away with whatever they want. They don’t believe the rules are for them. It’s for us, we little people, who can’t afford expensive lawyers and more expensive politicians to protect them.
Which means that even if we’d been barred from owning things like AR-15s and were forced to give ours up, Diddy would have kept his. He’d have kept them and not thought anything about them.
And he’d have supported every minute of us being stripped of our rights, too, most likely.
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