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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What a complete bunch B.S.
The problem is that President Obama jumps into events before there is any investigation and starts claiming racism.
The NRA has never done what the writer claims. They have always called for calm and an investigation before a rush to judgement.
They have supported the rights of black people.
Complete B.S.
They have often been criticised for waiting for investigations instead of jumping in as President Obama does.
Complete projection on the part of the writer.
Way too many assumptions in your post.
Did you notice that the window on the drivers side is rolled up? That would shield most of the interior from the muzzle blasts.
The shots were angled down, which is why she was not hit or splattered.
It is likely very similar to the Eric Scott case, where the police gave contradictory commands. One officer saying keep you hands in the open; another say lets see your license and registration.
Quote You on That ?
It’s starting to look like the CCW narrative was just another lie. Members of the Crips don’t usually get CCW’s and rob convenience stores.
That said, NRA has published many detailed articles showing the democrat led gun control began as a way to keep blacks from owning firearms. A few years ago, Dave Kopel published a highly detailed article citing dozens of instances where it was flat our written that blacks should be refused the right to firearms and laws were so written.
The author needs to put up or shut up.
The Dallas police assassinations are a perfectly clear example as to why the above was written.
This is not going to end well -- at all...
We need to call them BLT:
BLACK
LYING
TERRORISTS
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Just applying "The Golden Rule..." If I were an LEO, that is how I would want to be treated.
“Both hands on top of steering wheel...”
I think there must be more to this shooting than we’re hearing. A cop won’t shoot you if you act right.
Frankly, he’s right. Our constitutional system is designed for ethical, reasonably intelligence people with some reasonably high level of moral agency. To paraphrase Adams, it is wholly unsuited to any other sort of people. We have 150 years of evidence at this point that black people are, on average, incapable of flourishing under our system.
The 13th and 14th Amendments put an end to the slave system; their intent was to apply the Second Amendment to black people.
Saying more training was needed reminds me of when the government excuses criminal behavior by saying more education is needed.
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