Posted on 09/22/2019 12:36:55 PM PDT by Eddie01
After mass shootings in Southaven, Mississippi; Dayton, Ohio; and Midland, El Paso and Odessa, Texas, public demand for sensible gun reform once more soared.
And once more, Republican politicians, led by President Donald Trump, were intimidated into inaction by the gun lobby, led by the National Rifle Association.
Remarkably, it was America’s largest retailer — Walmart — that exhibited the courage politicians lacked.
It was in a Walmart store in El Paso where a gunman armed with an assault-style rifle, roused by the hate-filled rhetoric about a Latino “invasion” of our country, shot 48 people, killing 22.
Walmart CEO Doug McMillon, a lifelong hunter, realized that they had to take action to protect workers and customers in their stores. Walmart announced that it would ban open carry of guns in its stores.
In addition, it would discontinue selling handgun ammunition and ammunition that can be used in large-capacity clips on assault-style weapons. This was no small step.
The NRA and other gun lobbies immediately called on members to boycott Walmart. Walmart itself projected that it would lose about half of its ammunition sales with this decision and also called on the federal government to act to “strengthen background checks” and to consider “reauthorization of the Assault Weapons ban.”
Walmart’s action moved other retailers to act, as Kroger, the nation’s largest grocery chain, CVS, Walgreens and Wegmans also announced bans on open carry. (Other chains like Target, Starbucks and Chipotle have had policies against open carry for years.)
The laws on open carry and concealed carry of handguns vary from state to state, but open carry is legal in most states, often without any requirement for a permit.
Walmart’s example should now lead to a broader nonviolent movement to limit the carrying of guns, even as citizens push for legislative reforms at the state and national level.
In many states, like Texas, open carry is legal in churches. Churches across the country should follow Walmart’s lead and post signs banning the carrying of guns — open or concealed — on church property.
On university campuses, states’ laws vary dramatically, but most allow institutions to limit open or concealed carry. Students across the country should ensure that their university has acted to limit guns to the extent the laws allow.
At athletic events, again laws vary. Generally, it is illegal to carry guns into professional athletic events from the NFL to the MLB.
Most states also ban guns from high school or interscholastic sporting events. But as a college level, laws vary.
In many states, concealed carry is legal unless the university posts signs banning guns. Surely every campus should act to keep guns out of the stands at athletic events.
If more retailers follow Walmart, and if churches and universities and concert halls and movie theaters act to ban weapons from their premises, a movement for common sense gun regulation can continue to build.
When Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called America the “most violent nation on earth,” he was widely condemned, but he was right. No other nation suffers the level of gun violence that we endure. No other nation fights in as many wars on as many continents as we do.
Other nations savaged by civil war or outside invasion may suffer greater casualties in a conflict, but we have made violence — and victims of violence — routine.
King argued that we have a choice in the end between nonviolence and nonexistence.
The only hope for sensible gun regulation is to challenge the corruption represented by the NRA by nonviolent demonstrations and action, enlisting the overwhelming majority of Americans in a movement for change.
It was from a D.C. black racist online pub.
I found it by search, interested only in what the national pimp was up to.
Wonder what Cindy Sheehan is doing right now?
As a young child, Jackson was taunted by other children about his out-of-wedlock birth, and has said these experiences helped motivate him to succeed. Living under Jim Crow segregation laws, Jackson was taught to go to the back of the bus and use separate water fountains—practices he accepted until the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955. He attended the racially segregated Sterling High School in Greenville, where he was elected student class president, finished tenth in his class, and earned letters in baseball, football and basketball.
Upon graduating from high school in 1959, he accepted a contract from a minor league professional baseball team so that he could attend the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. After his second semester at the predominantly white school, Jackson transferred to North Carolina A&T, a historically black university in Greensboro, North Carolina. Accounts of the reasons for this transfer differ. Jackson has claimed that he changed schools because racial prejudice prevented him from playing quarterback and limited his participation on a competitive public-speaking team.
Born Jesse Louis Burns
October 8, 1941 (age 77)
Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Jacqueline Brown (m. 1962)
Children 6, including Santita, Jesse, and Jonathan
Education University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (BS)
Chicago Theological Seminary (MDiv)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Jackson
Yes Jessie, we can. And it starts with you announcing all guns should be consfiscated from black people because the overwhelming amount of murders and robberies are being committed by blacks. Not a racist statement, but a cold hard fact. Let’s see how the bruthas in the hood react to you Jesse?
She’s probably the one that designed that pink hat the feminists love so much...
Addiction?
Addiction is not a problem till you run out.
You thugs are an urban phenomenon. You are at heart predatory, much like wolves. We normals have no interest in relying upon your sense of ethics and restraint, as we view you and your ilk as unprincipled, opportunistic savages. So 'preach' as you wish about 'common sense gun control' and 'courage,' but we will not be disarmed prey.
M'Kay, JJ?
Ah, but Jesse, how much TOTAL violence do those nations have? I seem to recall that in Rwanda, some of your kinfolk managed to kill quite a few people with no guns at all??
Don’t know Jesse, how many in your household, congregation.
Come on, Jesse! Why don’t you and your Rainbow-PUSH Coalition saddle up and come take our guns? I’m sure Obama will provide you our addresses. Bring it on! I want to get this civil war OVER WITH, so my children may live in peace, after we VANQUISH the Progs.
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