Dallas Shooting Was NRA’s Prescription For Black America, In Practice

[misterhighwasted]

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_57839d66e4b05b4c02fd1631




Dallas Shooting Was NRA’s Prescription For Black America, In Practice
The NRA were the only winners in Dallas

The NRA has long disseminated propaganda telling African-Americans that gun control is “racist” and that they must prepare for war with their own government in order to truly be free. For example, current NRA board member (and past president) David Keene has claimed that “the initial wave of [gun control] was instituted after the Civil War to deny blacks the ability to defend themselves.” In 2013, NRA favorite Glenn Beck was the featured speaker at their annual meeting, where he told those in attendance that “universal access to firearms is indistinguishable from Emancipation.” He continued:

The Founders also warned about a time when the government would take the guns.

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In truth, the NRA—and the gun industry that serves as its cash cow—were the only winners in Dallas. They profited off every armed party at the rally that night—the killer, the armed police officers who were targets, and the open carriers who defied all the NRA’s empty rhetoric about “good guys with a gun” and ran for their lives rather than engaging the shooter.

Multimillionaire suits like LaPierre, NRA-ILA director Chris Cox, and the gun industry executives who sit on the NRA board of directors will no doubt seize on the violence we are currently seeing to further divide and antagonize Law enforcement and the Black Lives Matter movement. But the two sides now stand in a historic moment when they have every reason to come together, put down their arms, and resolve their differences in a peaceful, constitutional manner. The gun lobby has been allowed to escalate the arms race between law enforcement and civilians for four decades, with disastrous results. Isn’t it time to change course after Dallas?

The Way of the Gun will only ensure more bloodshed, more destroyed families and, ultimately, the anarchy our Founders so feared.

[Hoyt]

1. Not just the NRA, gunners right here have done the same.

[misterhighwasted]

2. Yes, they have eagerly carried water for the gun industry.

NRA plays one against the other. Profits soar.
And that is what they are all about.
Corporate Greed at its most despicible.

[misterhighwasted]

3. NRA plays one against the other. jpg again

NRA plays one against the other.
NRA is a For Profit Corporation

[SkeleTim1968]

4. I don't see how we move forward and

" come together, put down their arms, and resolve their differences in a peaceful, constitutional manner."


Has anyone heard the police admit there is a problem within their ranks?
One first has to admit to having a problem before they can begin to solve it.

It's not the black community or BLM who need to make the first move at this juncture, it's the police.
If they decide to continue to defend the many clearly corrupt officers in their departments I fear much more violence will happen because of the rage and frustration that is boiling underneath the surface of the usual beat of daily life in the US. People have had enough, to the point some are now shooting back and getting "street justice".

[NaturalHigh]

5. "Has anyone heard the police admit there is a problem within their ranks?"

Has anyone heard BLM denounce the violence of many of their protestors?

It goes both ways, and rioting and committing acts of violence against police officers (like we saw in Minnesota) is inexcusable no matter how some seek to justify it.

[SkeleTim1968]

6. Yes

as they have done every time an incident has occurred.
Black Lives Matter Leader Condemns Violence at St. Paul Protest
http://time.com/4400330/st-paul-protests-philando-castile-black-lives-matter/

BLM has denounced the violence? When can we expect the admission from officers that they have a huge problem with police brutality and racism within their ranks all over the nation?



yet the police continue to defend the indefensible and help cover up and smear the victims and stand with the wall of silence. Why must BLM first denounce before the police will address the initial issue they are protesting ?
Can't they do what is right without having to have someone else lead or tell them what they should do like a child?


Why must BLM always be the ones to extend the olive branch?