Can guns mix with civil rights?

Milwaukee J-S ^ | 29 nov 2015 | Matt Welch

[rellimpank]

When media outlets from the National Journal to Rolling Stone cover the bipartisan push for criminal justice reform — an effort that includes everyone from Rand Paul to Cory Booker, the Koch brothers to even the ACLU — their go-to phrase to characterize the movement is "unlikely coalition." Actually, there's nothing particularly surprising about the fact that civil libertarians come in more than one flavor or political party. Disagreement on, say, taxation doesn't necessitate disagreement on mass incarceration.

Meanwhile, the media have treated the budding partnership between the ascendant Black Lives Matter and the perennially frustrated gun control movement as if it were the most natural thing in the world — probably because both efforts lean left. That alliance, however, is truly unlikely, even nonsensical. Historically, civil rights and gun control have been at odds. The blunt fact is that one side seeks to rein in law enforcement, while the other wishes to give it more power.

"Why isn't gun control part of the Black Lives Matter platform?" lamented The Boston Globe's Farah Stockman in September. As if in answer to her prayers, Politico reported last month that "groups aligned with Black Lives Matter have started taking part in weekly conference calls with Washington's top gun control advocates." One of the main sources in the Politico story, National Urban League President Marc Morial, is an advisory board member of the Michael Bloomberg-run advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The gun control movement, Morial said in a much-forwarded quote, "is too white."

[tbw2]

You have no rights if you cannot defend them.
Even Islam mandates the dhimmis (non-Muslim second class citizens) be prohibited from owning weapons.

[i_robot73]

What % of that same demographic is/has been incarcerated (IE: More than likely to currently be ineligible, illegally I might add*, to exercise their 2nd A Rights)?

*One is either a felon, and thus should be behind bars, or a FREE Man with Rights. To say otherwise creates classes of Citizens and is antithesis to our Founding and Constitution.

Plus, though I might have signed up with them in the Past, the NRA does NOT care about the 2nd; they do/have backed ‘sensible gun control’ and Reid. Thanks, but no thanks. Give your time, and $$, to an organization that stands on principle(s).

[RKV]

The answer is about one quarter of all African American males have been convicted of a felony - technically they could still join the NRA. Couldn’t legally possess.

[marktwain]

Another case has surfaced where Detroit police officers are charged with falsely arresting a legally armed black man for carrying a concealed weapon, when in fact, the citizen was legally openly carrying his firearm.   The charge is a five year felony in Michigan, so this is no laughing matter.

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/11/chief-james-craig-needs-to-protect.html

These guys are trying to link "Black Lives Matter" to the Second Amendment.