You are correct, it was March for our lives- I had wanted to include the fearmongering that NRA does engage in around BLM- I donked it up in my comment. So here is it:
"Violence in South Africa is “kind of a warning for what could happen in the United States if we continue to let this get out of control, to go down this path of this racial tension,” Holton said. “This racial hatred that is being forced on the American culture by the Black Lives Matter crowd.”
I don’t know him personally. The NRA rhetoric is racist as hell. He might be willing to overlook that due to his feelings about gun ownership, but that doesn’t negate the racism.
Progressive allies disagreeing who are anti-gun aren’t parrots or lakeys of the democratic party. Gun control is not racism, especially since:
“A recent PEW survey found that 68 percent of black Americans support gun-control today while only 24 percent support unrestricted gun rights—the percentages were 42 percent and 51 percent for white Americans.”
http://www.jonathanmetzl.com/the-nra-and-black-people/
And I shouldn’t even have to add that the Democratic party has never even gotten close to the racist rhetoric of the NRA, up to and including promoting discredited theories about black people being intelligently inferior. Refrences are included in the Media Matters link above.
I’m tired of being talked down to about magazine sizes “scary guns” by gun people-Killer Mike included- and fearmongering about the government, which he engages in. There is room to talk about the reasons behind systemic violence and gun control.
