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friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 03:08 PM Dec 2020

Black And Up In Arms

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/12/09/944615029/black-and-up-in-arms

..."This is basically one of the many facilities where they train police," says Kourtney Redmond, 39, as he pulls into the outdoor range the day after Juneteenth, in his black pickup truck.

Redmond has arrived to meet about a dozen members of the 761st Gun Club, of which he is president. He and his peers stand out, not just among the group of white men shooting farther up the range, but in the common conception of who owns and shoots guns legally. Redmond and his group sport twists, dreadlocks, silk presses, and crew cuts. Some wear shirts with the club's slogan: "Come Out Fighting."

Over the next four hours, Redmond and his group practice how to shoot at moving targets, fire shots while lying on the ground and fix jammed magazines. "That's what the 761st [Gun Club] is about — making sure that people get classes, making sure that people have firearm knowledge and knowledge of the law," Redmond said. "A very big part of gun ownership is being within the corners of the law."

The gun club is a chapter of the National African American Gun Association, or NAAGA, which was created in 2015. NAAGA's membership steadily grew during the candidacy and presidency of Donald Trump, but this year was different. The pandemic, police brutality and civil unrest sent scores of people to the organization. Membership has grown by more than 25% this year, and NAAGA now boasts more than 40,000 members...


Good on them. I hope news of the ever-growing NAAGA membership gives Michael Bloomberg and his flock of racist
supporters heartburn.
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Black And Up In Arms (Original Post) friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 OP
thank you for this llashram Dec 2020 #1
Interesting that this was alerted... sarisataka Dec 2020 #2
I'm not surprised at that- it doesn't fit The Narrative friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 #4
What I wonder is what part was more offensive sarisataka Dec 2020 #5
I think it was the well-deserved slap at Bloomberg and some of his followers friendly_iconoclast Dec 2020 #6
Cool The Mouth Dec 2020 #3
 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
4. I'm not surprised at that- it doesn't fit The Narrative
Thu Dec 17, 2020, 08:22 PM
Dec 2020

True believers generally don't handle inconvenient truths very well at all-
gun prohibitionists tend to be as conspiracy theory-addled as the most unhinged Trump supporters.

They can no more accept that gun ownership ranges across a wide spectrum of society and gun control isn't as popular
as they purport it is than Trumpets can accept the fact that their beloved Donnie lost fair and square.

As an example of their enthusiastic embrace of said CT: The commentary to certain very recent posts in the other group




sarisataka

(21,000 posts)
5. What I wonder is what part was more offensive
Fri Dec 18, 2020, 10:48 AM
Dec 2020

The article about how POC have been responsivle for a significant percentage of the recent increase in gun sales or the pointing out the inconvenient fact of that racism has historically been the foundation of most gun control laws.

That tacit racism is still present, from the promotion of stop and frisk laws, which overwhelmingly target POC, to the oft repeated 'if blacks open carried like whites we would see gun control laws passed.' While some may pay lip service to equality, the most zealous of gun control proponents are happy to embrace that racism with a the-end-justifies-the-means attitude. Ironically they rarely, if ever, examine what that end looks like and if it is actually an improvement.

 

friendly_iconoclast

(15,333 posts)
6. I think it was the well-deserved slap at Bloomberg and some of his followers
Sat Dec 19, 2020, 07:03 PM
Dec 2020

Some prefer his racist attitudes go unmentioned-
it just doesn't *do* to post inconvenient truths about one of the best known gun control advocates, y'know:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1172161797

Audio of Bloomberg's remarks at the Aspen Institute about minorities and guns

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287594363

'We're Supposed To Do That': Bloomberg Defends NYPD's Spying Of Muslims After 9/11

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