Yes, you. The gun-waving, amendment-spouting people of the NRA. Did any of you show up in Ferguson, MO to protect anyone’s rights? Did you protect any of the peaceful demonstrators? Did you offer to provide any security against the looting? Any of you? No one?
Yeah, that’s what I thought. The only thing you want to protect is your toys, your individual, selfish rights. Your rights to weapons you don’t even have the courage to use for what you repeatedly claim is their intended purpose. Did any of you even show up to protest, openly, as members of the NRA?
Hell, you didn’t even SAY anything. Couldn’t even have been troubled to risk a bit of face and, as a united organization, denounce what was happening there. As defenders of ANYone’s rights, to do anything at all, you are worse than useless.
Go away. You have nothing to contribute to conversations about the safety and well-being of any country’s citizens. You are liars and cowards, and have no place in discussions about who should be allowed to “keep and bear arms” when other people are dying as a result.
So what you’re saying is that those folk of Ferguson who are members of the NRA should have made an issue of that fact while they were stopping looting, crafting makeshift gas masks, and protesting. That the fact that they’re members of the NRA is as important as any of the rest of what was and is going on there.
What you’re saying is that you /wanted/ a gun rights organization to take sides in a conversation that had little or nothing to do with their focus, and try to make it all about them, at a time when that would have been the rudest possible thing to do — and if they /had/, I assure you, you’d’ve been just as upset and found that to be just as good a reason to tear them down.
Are you trying to say that the reason Mike Brown was killed was because he had a gun, because the officer felt threatened by the possibility that Mike Brown had a gun? Because I haven’t seen a /thing/ about that in the last week. There’s a whole lot of bullshit about what happened that night, in that confrontation, but so far nobody’s said a word about the dead party being armed.
If you’d like to know what actual NRA members think about the circumstances, I can put you in touch with a large cluster of them — many of them have blogs that are well-known within the gun rights community, and if you’re willing to have a conversation with them, I’m sure you can get some actual answers to the rhetorical questions you’re asking.
If you don’t want to do that, kindly shut up.