Posted on 02/18/2015 4:35:22 AM PST by servo1969
Guns-for-me-but-not-for-thee hypocrisy on full display from the anti-gunner attorney, David Malik, when arrested for possession of guns and ammo in his travel bag at the airport.
The Examiner reports the following and reminds the readers of other anti-gun progressive hypocrites:
A leading local civil rights attorney was arrested over the weekend at Cleveland Hopkins Airport for having a concealed handgun in his carry-on bag, The Plain Dealer reported Sunday. David Malik, the original attorney for the family of 12-year-old Tamir Rice who was slain by police in November, spent the night in jail after a .22 caliber handgun and a box of ammunition were discovered by airport security.
“What’s interesting about David is he is such an anti-gun person,” Steve Loomis, president of the Cleveland Police Patrolmen’s Association, told the press. “He’s such an anti-violence person, and of all the things for him to get arrested for, that really surprises me.”
It may surprise Loomis, but prominent anti-gun activists personally involved with guns, sometimes illegally, is a phenomenon gun rights advocates have pointed out before. Such revelations are generally accompanied with comments suggesting no small amount of self-serving elitism.
That was the case a year ago, when SAFE Act proponent Dwayne Ferguson was arrested for illegally having a gun on his person at a Buffalo elementary school, prompting a police lockdown. As with Malik’s case, the violation was said to be unwitting, although Ferguson had the gun on his person, and he did not come forward and notify police. Also similar to Malik’s circumstances, there was no shortage of community voices coming forward with testimonials.
More serious than that is the case of California State Senator Leland Yee, who supported all manner of citizen disarmament edicts before his arrest on political corruption, racketeering and gun trafficking charges. And Lee, the subject of a four year FBI probe, is hardly the only anti-gun politician to run afoul of the law on guns.
Retired Chicago Alderman Richard Mell ( the father-in-law of disgraced former governor and felon Rod Blagojevich), who helped craft the city’s since-overturned ban on handguns, used his political connections to rewrite the registration law and create an “amnesty” after he’d neglected to do the paperwork needed to keep his. And the late Frank Melton, former mayor of Jackson, Miss., routinely violated “gun laws” he demanded everyone else to obey.
What will happen with Malik is uncertain at this writing. Gun rights advocates may note the “hoist on his own petard” irony, but in the interests of justice ought to want equal considerations for all, with no harsh penalties. At the same time, note will be taken of “troubling special treatment” as was criticized in the case of Democrat Texas State Sen. Juan “Chuy” Hinojosa, another prominent anti-gun figure caught with a gun at an airport.
The real question is what are “gun control” advocates doing carrying guns in the first place? That it does not strike them as logically and morally insupportable is a curiosity those who advocate for the right to keep and bear arms chalk up to hypocrisy.
Read more here (via Cleveland and hat tip GSL).
Jail.
He’s a lawyer. That says it all.
““He’s such an anti-violence person, and of all the things for him to get arrested for, that really surprises me.”
TRANSLATION: It didn’t surprise me, really. Liberals are lying hypocrites. Anti-violence..seriously? LOL Libtards are the first to commit violence if you don’t worship obama..
Comrades! Give up your guns! We can not come to get you for the labor camps unless we are sure you will not protest with your guns!!! (Progressives=Obnoxious Punks)
IMHO
‘The real question is what are “gun control” advocates doing carrying guns in the first place? That it does not strike them as logically and morally insupportable is a curiosity those who advocate for the right to keep and bear arms chalk up to hypocrisy.’
Oh give me a break! Liberals are liars of the highest order. When they speak of gun control or free speech etc its all about liberties for them but not you. They view themselves as elite, morally and ethically superior to those perceived as inferiors. Its logical then why they support and found such orgs as the KKK, Planned Parenthood et al.
Many anti-gun activists are anti-your-gun activists.
They’re pro-their-own-gun. Because they’re better than you, see?
He should get the same “no tolerance BS” young kids get from schools when they point a finger, or when the DC resident gets prison for having an antique ball and powder pistol, or when Bill Gregory gets prison time for an on-air possession of an illegal magazine (oh, wait! that didn’t happen).
He should be put in jail for illegal possession, attempted terrorism and any and every law they can hit him with.
Only when their rights are abridged, when they suffer intolerably because of zealous panic, imprisoned for trivial crap will they understand.
Lock his ass up.
The ruling class are always exempt from their own laws. Don’t forget about Bloomberg and his armed security team.
I remember arresting an ACLU lawyer that had an expired drivers license, no insurance, and fraudulent license plate belonging to another vehicle...right in front of state police HQ - towed his crap of a car and smiled at the irony...
Lock up all of these anti gun liberals if they own a gun. I guess liberals are exempt from laws...
“chalk up to hypocrisy”? The only people that chalk these incidents up to hypocrisy are blind sheeple. Anyone who remotely pays attention knows that calls for disarming are about neutralization of a certain segment of society, not because they have a problem with guns.
It was obviously planted in his luggage by those evil white racist TSA union thugs...
Mr. Malik....Phone Call....Someone named Rosie....
Instant Karma gonna get you. :-)
The real question is; where in the heck did he get a box of .22 ammo?
Typical. Of course, he’ll get a slap on the wrist, as these hypocrites always do. If it were up to me, he’d serve the maximum jail sentence allowed by the law.
He carryings a firearm so that when they outlaw them for the rest of us he can turn his on us to force us to obey their every command.
Make no mistake. These scumbags want complete control. The Only way to achieve that is complete disarmament of the citizens.
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