NRA on claims of racism: You don’t know what you’re talking about
Wayne LaPierre of the NRA: Those Who Call The NRA Racist Dont Know Our History
He then lists the civil rights activists who were directors or even executives of the NRA and their Union origins. But then he engages in a bit rewriting of recent history:
With our unyielding dedication to preserving the Second Amendment, the NRA has long been fighting the covert racism of gun control. Even today in places like Chicago and D.C.where the Supreme Courts will on the Second Amendment is ignoredthe targets of the gun banners are good and honest inner-city residents who are the victims of unchecked armed violence: Hispanics and African-Americans.
Nowhere was that more apparent than in the story of Otis McDonald, the lead plaintiff in the U.S. Supreme Court case that knocked down Chicagos draconian gun ban in 2010 and extended the individual right to keep and bear arms to every corner of the nation.
The problem with this revisionism is that the McDonald case was taken on by Alan Gura and The Second Amendment Foundation. And not exactly with the NRA’s blessing, who filed their own suit.
September 28th, 2017 at 11:53 am
NRA did squat for DC for decades, even tho they had the power to change things.
September 28th, 2017 at 3:12 pm
They did the same for DC as they do for New Jersey and New York
September 28th, 2017 at 3:42 pm
On the one hand, Gura got only one vote for MacDonald (Thomas) while the NRA got the other 4. I happen to think that Gura as right on the substance and that substantive due process is BS but it worked.
September 28th, 2017 at 4:49 pm
Richard,
Gura knew he had the win. He went for the gold.
October 1st, 2017 at 7:54 pm
@sayuncle
Well you are more connected than me so I will accept your analysis. It did seem risky though. P&I has been dead for more than a century while substantive due process has been alive. And I don’t trust Roberts and Kennedy at all.
October 1st, 2017 at 8:22 pm
I had this exact conversation with Gura. He knew what he was doing.