Posted on 03/31/2015 4:31:32 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The Rev. Samuel Mosteller, photographed at a 2013 rally at the Georgia State Capitol, on Tuesday advocated African-American families arm themselves in response to recent police shootings of unarmed black men.
The head of the Georgia chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, founded by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to promote nonviolent social change, on Tuesday advocated African-American families exercise their Second Amendment rights in response to recent police shootings of unarmed black men.
You stand there, (police) shoot. You run, they shoot. Were going to have to take a different tack, Samuel Mosteller, longtime president of the Georgia SCLC, told reporters.
The remarks came one week after 23-year-old Goodyear employee Nicholas Thomas was fatally shot by Smyrna police serving an arrest warrant on a probation violation. Police say Thomas tried to run them over in a customers Maserati, though lawyers hired by the dead mans family have challenged the official account.
Earlier this month 27-year-old Anthony Hill, who suffered from bipolar disorder, was shot and killed by a DeKalb County police officer who alleged the Afghanistan war veteran charged him in a threatening manner. Hill was nude and unarmed at the time....
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Nevermind the years of Black-on-Black criminal violence, right, Rev ?
Yup.
All but telling people to go shoot cops.
I can see a day when the DOJ will force townships to give Affirmative Action to gun permits, too.
>>Police say Thomas tried to run them over in a customers Maserati,
That’s horrible. Did they shoot the Maserati?
all this means is... the number of blacks getting shot will increase, not decrease
and not by cops... but by each other.
As a white man, I want reparations for all the damage these people have done to my country.
“You stand there, (police) shoot. You run, they shoot. Were going to have to take a different tack,
Yep that might work out. /sarc
but but but but but.....blakc lives matter........only when whitey cops kill dem
The guy died driving a Maserati?
There may be worse ways to go.
Most of our current gun control was intended to disarm blacks.
I have mixed emotions about it. I happen to like the idea of blacks protecting themselves and the more people who carry lawfully, the better. The race baiting part of it, notsomuch.
I wish the idiots would go ahead and bring it.
Time for a showdown. Past time. The country is coming apart anyway. There won’t be much left if this destruction and constant bickering, oppression and tension go on.
Well, he is right. And it doesn’t matter if your black or white, you have a right to protect yourself. From a criminal or a cop... It makes no difference. (and sometimes there’s overlap)
Black families should be armed....? Are you talking only about families that has a working dad in it, a stay at home mom and kids named Ann and Steve?
I couldn’t agree more! Every responsible person in society, black, white, Asian, whatever should be armed with a personal weapon, as many places as they possible can be. An armed society is a police society, and criminals would soon tire of getting shot by their would-be victims. Government would cower from such a fully-armed citizenry, and liberty would ring throughout the land.
You may be right morally and possibly even legally, but everybody should keep in mind that in practical terms you have very little right to self-defense against a cop.
Kill a cop, regardless of the circumstances, and in many states you have an excellent chance of getting the needle.
Not saying I agree with this POV, simply pointing out that it is a fact.
Bring it on Jack asses. You won’t believe the response.
I could never shoot at a Maserati, unless it was charging at my Porsche.
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