If you are a cop seeing your fellow officers hit and dying, you look around for who might be shooting. You see people with assault rifles in the street. How would you react?
The Dallas Police Department is to be praised for not opening fire on those armed demonstrators. This raises another question: why would you attend a peaceful protest carrying an assault rifle?
A spokesman for the Texas State Rifle Association said it would be a mistake to blame the state’s open carry law for the police mistakenly identifying one of the demonstrators as a possible shooter. The spokesman, Mr. Williamson, said, “I think he [the demonstrator] chose to carry a gun because he could, and it’s his right.”
Yeah, and there’s the problem. Why do you have a right to carry an assault rifle to a protest, or on a college campus, or into the state legislature? Why would you carry a long gun to a peaceful demonstration? Why would a state legislature pass such a ridiculous law?
I know that the N.R.A. and the gun manufacturers have a lot of money for campaign contributions. I know that gun nuts are sometimes really nuts. Nonetheless, one would think that some common sense would prevail, although it is Texas.
Why won’t the N.R.A. just once admit some culpability?
They never will admit to any responsibility because the second amendment. So the second amendment gives them the right to make obscene profits. They won't be happy until all citizens own at least half a dozen assault rifles. Of course then they would move on to bazookas.
ReplyDeleteWhy is it that there are supposed to be so many NRA members who say they don't oppose background checks? I don't hear them speaking up and they still keep paying dues!
I wonder about that same thing. Are those members intimidated?
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