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Gun rights and civil rights aren't that different

August 2, 2022 by Tom Knighton Leave a Comment

The gun rights movement gets pretty much nothing but bad press. The media doesn’t like us and seemingly goes out of its way to portray us in the most negative light possible.

Meanwhile, groups like Black Lives Matter are described as fighting for civil rights, the spiritual descendants of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

However, while many who support BLM oppose gun rights. The idea is that the two are diametrically opposed to one another somehow.

That’s what the New York Times seemed to think, but as Reason’s Damon Root notes, that isn’t necessarily the case.

A group of public defense lawyer organizations recently joined forces with Second Amendment advocates to urge the U.S. Supreme Court to invalidate a New York gun control scheme. Now that the scheme has been successfully overturned in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, which held that the Second Amendment includes the right “to carry a handgun for self-defense outside the home,” public defenders have begun citing the Court’s ruling to protect the rights of their clients.

This state of affairs has left some New York Times journalists scratching their heads in surprise. As a recent Times headline put it: “Unlikely Fans of Supreme Court Ruling on Guns: Public Defenders.” The accompanying article describes the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid, the Bronx Defenders, and other groups as “unexpected” allies of the gun rights movement.

But the alliance seems less “unexpected” when you remember that gun control has a racially disparate impact. As the public defender groups told the Supreme Court in an amicus brief, “New York enacted its firearm licensing requirements to criminalize gun ownership by racial and ethnic minorities. That remains the effect of its enforcement by police and prosecutors today.” In other words, Bruen was a win for both gun rights and criminal justice reform.

Root goes on to delve into the history of how the civil rights movement had a component of gun rights as well. It’s not a terribly long read, but it’s a good one.

You see, while the media loves to tout the revisionist history book The Second as authoritative proof that gun rights are rooted in racism, the truth is that the vast majority of gun control laws were, at least initially, designed to disarm black men and women, making it easier for racists to terrorize them.

Lawmakers of the day figured those laws wouldn’t be applied to white folks regardless of what the law actually said, but could be used to keep black people essentially disarmed.

In other words, as we’ve noted time and time again, gun control has racist roots and origins.

Further, as noted above, it continues to have a disproportional impact on the black community pretty much everywhere in the United States. If we’re going to take a disproportional impact on black people as a sign of racism, as seems to happen in just about every aspect of political life that doesn’t involve guns, then why isn’t it seen the same way with gun control?

Look, at the end of the day, gun rights and civil rights have much in common. That’s because gun rights are civil rights. They always were and always will be.

However, until that is more broadly recognized, all civil rights will be at risk.

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Justice Department suing over civil rights violation

July 7, 2022 by John Petrolino Leave a Comment

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice has been making waves. They often cite how they’re champions of civil rights and liberties. In Attorney General Garland’s mind, they’re #nailingit. Recently they announced a lawsuit challenging what they’re inferring to be a civil rights violation. The particulars of the the suit were laid out in a Department of Justice announcement on Tuesday.

“House Bill 2492’s onerous documentary proof of citizenship requirement for certain federal elections constitutes a textbook violation of the National Voter Registration Act,” said Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division. “For nearly three decades, the National Voter Registration Act has helped to move states in the right direction by eliminating unnecessary requirements that have historically made it harder for eligible voters to access the registration rolls.

Yeah, their suit is not about the Second Amendment. Did you think that this Department of Justice would actually do something to benefit those who are dealing with an infringed Second Amendment?

They continued:

“The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona is dedicated to protecting voters in the state,” said U.S. Attorney Gary M. Restaino for the District of Arizona. “We are proud to join the Civil Rights Division in bringing this lawsuit to ensure that all eligible citizens in Arizona have the opportunity to register to vote and exercise their fundamental right to participate in our elections.”

The United States’ complaint contends that House Bill 2492 violates the NVRA by requiring that applicants produce documentary proof of citizenship before they can vote in presidential elections or vote by mail in any federal election when they register to vote using the uniform federal registration form created by the NVRA.

I think having access to vote is a very important thing, and yes, fundamental to our representative republic. I don’t think it’s too much of an “ask” to have citizens be the only ones voting.

The thing here is that the Department of Justice acts like they’re some sort of a social justice warrior. The big over caffeinated Karen to hurl mochachinos at Mr. Joe Blow America. Joe Blow naturally somehow offended them for merely existing. Garland bellowing “I want to see the manager!”

Since we’re on the topic of civil rights being infringed upon, I don’t see Garland, who did not cut the mustard to be a Supreme Court Justice, filing suits against states for their overly restrictive firearms laws, do we? No we’re not. Actually there are a number of jurisdictions that have been so cavalier in the last half century+ (NY 100+) by usurping the rights of American citizens to keep and bear arms, but as of late they really have no excuse to continue the infringements. No more excuses! “As of late” is the big stick we’ve all been talking about for the last two weeks, and will be for the next two decades, at least…Bruen.

Garland, the Big Guy’s flunkey, is not going after states like Massachusetts, New York, Hawaii, New Jersey, etc. for their laws that fly in the face of the decision. They’re not telling New York they best be on their best behavior. No, Garland’s not making sure the Second Amendment is being respected anywhere in the country. One could say he’s complicit in treating the Second Amendment as a second class right, which we’ve known is a no no for over a decade, with Thomas reiterating that fact on his last birthday. #nationalholiday #justicethomasday

Why is the Biden-Harris administration going after the voting ID laws in Arizona? We’ll leave that for the folks at Townhall to discuss. I could take a stab at it though. Regardless, I may have called the shot like the Great Bambino the other day when I called out the Attorney General for valuing some rights over others, but ya really don’t have to be a master in prognostication to deduce this reality. These swamp critters really are some champions of civil liberties. #doingsomething

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A Compendium of Second Amendment quotes for the Fourth of July

July 4, 2022 by Ranjit Singh Leave a Comment

On the necessity of an armed citizenry

Frederick Douglass: A man’s rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. 

Alexander Hamilton: The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.

Hubert Humphrey: The right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible.

Alex Kozinski (In Silveira v. Lockyer): The majority falls prey to the delusion, popular in some circles, that ordinary people are too careless and stupid to own guns, and we would be far better off leaving all weapons in the hands of professionals on the government payroll. But the simple truth, born of experience, is that tyranny thrives best where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people.

Richard Henry Lee: To preserve liberty, it is essential that the whole body of the people always possess arms, and be taught alike, especially when young, how to use them.

Thomas Jefferson: The constitutions of most of our States assert, that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves, … or they may act by representatives, freely and equally chosen; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed; that they are entitled to freedom of person, freedom of religion, freedom of property, and freedom of the press.

James Madison: Americans have the right and advantage of being armed, unlike the people of other countries, whose leaders are afraid to trust them with arms.

Joseph Story: The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them.

On disarming the citizenry

Mohandas K. Gandhi: Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Adolf Hitler: The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms.  History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.

Henry St. George Tucker: The right of self-defense is the first law of nature; in most governments it has been the study of rulers to confine this right within the narrowest limits possible. Wherever standing armies are kept up, and when the right of the people to keep and bear arms is, under any color or pretext whatsoever, prohibited, liberty, if not already annihilated, is on the brink of destruction.

On the Futility of gun control

Cesare Beccaria (“On Crimes and Punishments”): The laws of [false utility] are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator?

William S. Burroughs: After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn’t do it.

Guns as an Equalizer

Samuel Colt: The good people of this world are very far from being satisfied with each other and my arms are the best peacemakers.

Robert Heinlein: An armed society is a polite society.

Abraham Lincoln: In reference to you, colored people, let me say God has made you free. Although you have been deprived of your God-given rights by your so-called ‘masters’, you are now as free as I am, and if those that claim to be your “superiors” do not know that you are free, take the sword and bayonet and teach them that you are; for God created all men free, giving to each the same rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Carol Ruth Silver: Access to firearms gives women, for the first time in history, the capacity to live independently and apart from men in safety and freedom. [Emphasis is mine]

Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Of the many inhuman outrages of this present year, the only case where the proposed lynching did not occur, was where the men armed themselves in Jacksonville, Fla., and Paducah, Ky., and prevented it. The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense. […] A Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give.

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