Posted on 10/28/2021 9:23:59 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
P.B. Gomez is a 23-year-old law student at the UC Berkeley School of Law interested in urban environmental justice policy. He's also the founder of the Latino Rifle Association (LRA), a politically progressive organization for Latino gun owners with left-leaning values who want to exercise their Second Amendment rights.
"Gun culture in the United States is largely toxic, and it's not welcoming," said Gomez. And he believes gun rights are for everyone: "I don't believe self defense, which is fundamentally about bodily autonomy, should be exclusive to people on the right politically."
The LRA website states membership is open to all racial groups so long as its mission and rules are respected. Since its formation in 2020, the LRA has attracted several hundred members across the U.S.
"Our biggest supporters have actually been leftists, have been socialists, progressives. You sort of have to have a distrust of authority. The police and the government aren't taking care of me, so I have to do things on my own," Gomez explained.
"We have seen a dramatic rise in the number of groups that support gun rights for LGBTQ people, for people of color, and other left-leaning groups in recent years," Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, told CBS News. "However, we should still put it in context. Those groups are still few and far between."
The National African American Gun Association reported a spike in membership since the 2016 elections and now has 30,000 members nationwide.
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“Urban environmental justice policy.”
That’s a mighty big way of saying professional grifter and shake down artist.
From them evil kkk white suprema-cysts?
Why yes, it does..................
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First part wrong, second part right
And he (P.B. Gomez) believes gun rights are for everyone: “I don’t believe self defense, which is fundamentally about bodily autonomy, should be exclusive to people on the right politically.” …No; that is not what he is really saying. He is saying that gun rights are not for “people on the right politically” at all.
“Our biggest supporters have actually been leftists, have been socialists, progressives. You sort of have to have a distrust of authority. The police and the government aren’t taking care of me, so I have to do things on my own,”
Welcome to the party, Pal!
Yet another Berkeley affirmative action Mexican using pretzel logic to state what’s obvious: 2A riights apply even to an angry Reconquista like him.
Cue the coming feel good news stories of poc gun ownership. What glaring hypocrisy
It never was, dummy.
Pfft. Another Affirmative Action Law School admittee speaks.
See, they’re coming out of the closet finally. Liberals don’t hate guns, they just hate it bc you can have them too. Right now the narrative is self defense which will eventually turn into murdering those they deem disposable.
People should never go full potato.
“Latin Rifle Association”? How about thinking like an assimilated American and join an organization that its color and race blind: the National Rifle Association.
Bull Pucky. I live in Mew Mexico. The folks here who are very much into the "gun culture" can and do get along quite well across racial and cultural boundaries.
Since he admits to being a Racist and is trying to become a morally bankrupt lawyer, I think he should be DENIED access to firearms in perpetuity
WTF exactly. Don’t these idiots see the contradictions in their positions?
It even’s the odds for everyone. That’s why they are called equalizers.
I guarantee you it’s not white folks coming after them.
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