Posted on 07/07/2016 10:15:13 PM PDT by RC one
The National Rifle Association is often eager to jump into heated debates about guns. In case after case and lawsuit after lawsuit, they have rushed to get involved—usually when people are defending their concealed carry and open carry gun rights.
Those people are very often white.
Yet the NRA has been silent in the wake of Wednesday’s police killing of Philando Castile, a black man who was also a licensed concealed carrier of a gun, even though his legal right to a weapon played a key role in his death.
“He’s licensed, he’s carrying, so he’s licensed to carry,” Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond “Lavish” Reynolds, explained in the now-infamous Facebook Live video she recorded just moments after his shooting. “He let the officer know that he had a firearm and he was reaching for his wallet and the officer just shot him in his arm.”
Castile was following the law and procedure, and yet he was still shot and killed by police.
On Thursday, I called the NRA and asked if it had issued, or planned on issuing, any comment about his death.
The woman who picked up the phone told me that they “might not put out any statement” about the matter.
What does that tell you? Castile’s death is the most recent example of the strained relationship between black people and guns throughout American history. To put it bluntly: it shows that the Second Amendment has never really been meant for black people.
Evidence of this can be found even before America was officially a country. The first gun control law in the territory that is now the United States was passed in Virginia in 1640. It explicitly banned black people from owning guns, even if they were not slaves.
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Of course! That's the ultimate act of collective self-defense...
Best to pull the documents out before he gets to the window from now on I think.
People need to do some research on the NRA and their support for the “Deacons for Defense” in the 60’s.
I think the NRA definitely would have had their backs on this business in Minnesota but with the events that occurred in Dallas, I don’t see how they’re going to be able to now.
How could that black man, been “legally” carrying that weapon? Wasn’t he a felon?
Don’t be an idiot like Obama and come to conclusions before the facts are out. You really expect the NRA to make a statement based on a partial video of an incident? Now is the time to keep a cool head.
“Best to pull the documents out before he gets to the window from now on I think.”
Do you really think rummaging around in the glove box as the officer approaches your car is the way to go?
We have all formed an initial assessment at this point. My initial assessment is that if he had a permit, he was more than likely a law abiding citizen who was complying with the law and was shot by a jumpy cop. I will, of course, be watching for any irrefutable evidence that might conflict with that initial assessment and will modify my assessment based on the merits of any such evidence.
It doesn’t take me any significant amount of rummaging to get my license, proof of insurance, and registration ready. I have been pulled over for speeding twice while carrying. I promptly informed the officers that I had a permit and a handgun and where the handgun was located and I left my hands on the steering wheel until told by the LEO told me to provide the license and registration. I had no issues but in light of the heightened tensions lately I think, for the benefit of the cop and myself, it would be best to have those documents out and in plain sight before the officer arrives at the window and I have always had plenty of time to get them around anyways.
She also sounded very calm, to me.
Needed more training?
That cop was a criminal and criminals don’t need more training.
I don't record video much, but have wondered if any of the odd effects in that video could have been caused by the camera on the phone being reversed to record from the front of the phone as opposed to out of the back camera?
From what a radio host said, this happens when video is uploaded via a particular ap as it happens to him.
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That’s been my M.O. since I got my permit. Wallet and registration are out before the officer ever leaves the car. Right hand on the wheel, left hand on top of the door near the side mirror.
Daniel Rivero is a producer/reporter for Fusion who focuses on police and justice issues. He also skateboards, does a bunch of arts related things on his off time, and likes Cuban coffee.<\i>
Freaking poofer.
You’re thinking of the guy in Baton Rouge. The guy up in MN was apparently a legal concealed carry holder.
Jeff Farnsworth
according to the US Department of Justice (“Homicide Trends in the United States, 1980–2008“), blacks accounted for 52.5 percent of homicide offenders from 1980 to 2008, with whites 45.3 percent and “other” 2.2 percent.
These figures infamously added all Hispanic crimes into the “white” category, and once this distortion is stripped out, it is estimated that around 90 percent of all violent crimes in America are committed by nonwhites.
Like you, when I heard he was a CCW permit holder I grieved, a brother had been killed by police. I did not care what color he was. A man, woman, and child in a car are a family, as far as I am concerned. We may discover more soon but why did he not cease moving when ordered to do so? After Dallas we may never know. Overwhelmed by events.
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