As Donald Sensing correctly points out, this is the whole reason we ended up with a gun control movement in the first place. A southern white man could have driven around with a Maxim gun in the back of his truck in the early twentieth, and people would have commented on what a cool gun that was. But god help us if black people were to arm themselves. No, we must be protected against that.
And it’s been quite a long time, if ever, since a lot of black people felt protected by cops. Makes perfect sense to me that some might decide it’s best if police abuse has at least a potential cost. Though I notice that this clip contains an example of what I consider one of the saddest, sorriest sentences ever uttered in my language:
‘If you’re not doing anything wrong, you don’t have to worry about the police.’
And it’s not coming from a white person.
He might want to consider that it’s the one with the gun who gets to decide if you’re doing anything wrong.
“…the one with the gun who gets to decide if you’re doing anything wrong.”
Especially if that guy with the gun has a “get out of jail free” card and won’t ever be held accountable for doing any wrong. The things they get away with these days are mind bending.
The problem with the story is that, as more evidence comes out regarding Ferguson, the more it looks like Brown really was attacking the cop. So the marchers motivations are based on false data.
Their claim that they “have so many Michael Browns here in the city of Dallas,” doesn’t sound so inspirational when one takes into account the likelihood that Brown basically committed suicide-by-cop:-(.
The people in that video are what Lenin called “useful idiots.”
I try not to draw conclusions based on incomplete evidence if I can. Not perfect, by any means.
But given the evidence we’ve seen so far, it’s kind of hard for me to blame the officer here for laying Brown low. More evidence will come to light, I think, but at least right now it’s hard for me to be too hard on the guy.
Which is something, coming from me…
But I’m all about personal responsibility, and that includes the responsibility to be honest – both in truth and intellectually honest, and just because I’m pissed about the “free passes” and widespread police violence going on, doesn’t mean that a just shooting is one of those things.
Unlike the Chipotle yayhoos, these guys seem to know what slings are for. Props.