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benEzra

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3. They spoke out, in their ponderous, Old-Media-oriented kind of way.
Sun Jul 10, 2016, 12:21 PM
Jul 2016

Meaning like a couple days delay. I don't think they spoke out against Erik Scott's killing for quite a while either (another apparent case of a licensed CCW holder trying to obey contradictory commands and getting shot for it), and he was white.

Colion Noir spoke out immediately on his blog, but not on an NRA letterhead.

I do know that it was the NRA and the ACLU that got guns returned to black residents of NOLA after they were illegally confiscated during Katrina, and they also went to court to block gun bans on public housing residents, so they have stood up for the gun rights of African-Americans in the past. I do agree that there was a perception of foot-dragging on this, though, and I suspect there is some internal tension between defending the officer and defending the CCW-licensed gun owner.

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