You make an awful lot of assertions about my comments that simply don’t exist in my comments or in the article at hand.
For me the only thing I need to see is that the Oath Keepers will be running the exercise.
“The Oath Keepers, a group founded in 2009, is primarily composed of current and former police and military members.”
And the Oath Keepers are arming 50 black people. They never said that these individuals were protesters, gang bangers, or New Black Panthers.
YOU DID.
You’re outraging yourself.
If they follow through, they will be arming the demographic I described because that is the demographic make up of the protesters - by their own admission.
If the Oath Keepers recruit 50 random, law abiding black citizens to openly carry AR-15s through the streets of Ferguson , the the event will indeed be a stunt, and very ill advised stunt at that.
The whole thing started when the protesters shouted that THEY, as in protesters, would be arrested if they carried AR-15s like the Oath Keepers - and they would have been arrested for good reason since the AR-15s are not as easy to hide as the handguns these same protesters were using in their ambushes and gunfights with the police.
The Oath Keepers choose to make this a 2nd Amendment issue and offered to provide the protesters with 50 AR-15s to test their theory .
If they give the guns to normal, decent law abiding black people, the police would have no real reason to disarm them, would they so the whole event would be a cheap stunt, no ?
Sometimes very good, well intentioned people do spectacularly dumb things when they let their ideals cloud their judgment and perception of reality.
BTW, I am pretty well aware of who and what the Oath Keepers are.
Lots of men and women of all races and creeds are committed to the continued freedom and welfare of our country, but the media is making a big deal out this in a bad way for the Oath Keepers
My biggest beef with this whole farce is that it allows the propagandists in the media to paint and mis-cast the Oath Keepers to look like some kooky male white supremacist/domestic terror cult in the eyes of the uninformed public.
Of course, nothing could be further from the truth, but that sure is the way it's being spun by a media which has been working overtime to portray the Oath Keepers as a dangerous group of crazy and unstable, PTSD afflicted ex war criminals now become "home grown" domestic terrorists.
The kind who, because of their PTSD related mental disabilities, are ticking time bombs just waiting to explode and who thus need to have their 2nd Amendment rights suspended for the good of society by the DHS and VA based on Psych justification.
It's ironic that ex - military guys would help manufacture their own enemy ambush - and then walk right into it with their open eyes blinded by ideology .