This is extremely unwise. They are talking about giving rifles to people who regularly chant kill the police, stop traffic at every opportunity and have poor impulse control, evidenced over and over.
There were five shootings in 30 hours there in an area quarter mile square.
Now the Oathkeepers to prove they aren’t racist are going to lead a march through the streets, again blocking streets, illegally, while supporting the cause of a violent robbery suspect who tried to kill a police officer?
How will the screen those who they give weapons to? How will they account for them during and after the march? What will they do when those weapons get stolen. use the police they are trying to intimidate to help them find the weapons they handed out?
When NAACP handed out cameras to the citizens of St. Louis to film the police, those cameras wound up on pawn shops.
Those rifles will be stolen, count on it.
All it would take would be one accidental discharge and the rounds would be flying. The majority of people who would be killed would be black. The Oathkeepers would then be labeled as racists who used black citizens as proxies for their anti-government stance. The alternative media would scream it was the police that shot first and then we have a good old fashioned insurrection on our hands.
The Oathkeepers don’t understand they are not and will not be in charge of this march. Have they given any thought to handing guns out to people who have a penchant from blocking and intimidating motorists? People are going to start running them over, shooting first or the police will. Citizens cannot create armed roadblocks and expect the police to stand by.
This action will set the gun rights movement back, not enhance it.
Is someone from the obola Admin behind this idea?
Incredibly stupid to hand guns to those you know have criminal intent. Not to mention illegal if they are felons.
Your reply is chock full of erroneous assumptions. Unfortunately I don't have time to discuss them all. But thanks for your response.
I don’t think the Oath Keepers are doing this to prove that they aren’t racist.
My reading is that they are doing it to promote Constitutional and legal gun rights.
Please correct me if I’m wrong, but it looks like that sheriff issued an illegal order/directive prohibiting lawful open carry. Thats what, again to me, it looks like the Oath Keepers are reacting to.
An infringement of rights is still an infringement of rights. And iirc we all believe that denial of rights should only be the result of due process of law, with the presumption of innocence playing a preeminent role.
Depending on the controls the Oath Keepers put in place this may indeed be unwise. But it’s hard to deny that it’s being done in keeping with their closely held principles on gun rights and the rule of law.