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Our friend Kenn Blanchard, Black Man with a Gun, was featured by the Washington Times after he challenged Comrade Barry’s response to the South Carolina church murders. Finally, Nanny Bloomberg’s favorite call girl is back at it begging for more state control. And we still don’t have our sandwiches.
SOURCES:
From dailycaller.com:
“Documents obtained by The Daily Caller and interviews with American veterans reveal a shocking government program: The Department of Veterans Affairs is disarming America’s veterans by getting them placed on the FBI’s criminal background-check list.
The VA sends veterans’ personal medical and financial information directly to the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which can seize their guns in home raids.
Veterans deemed mentally incompetent or financially incapable are finally speaking out about the errors in the system and the fearful harassment they and their families face from the federal government. And it all starts when vets go to the VA to get medical help.“
From www.nbcnews.com:
“Veterans ripped a sign that read “The Emperor Benghazi Has No Clothes” from a protester’s hands as a group gathered for President Barack Obama’s speech on veterans’ issues in Pittsburgh.
The tussle occurred as the president spoke to the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars about stressing the need to honor soldiers’ service.
The sign was a reference to the September 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya which resulted in the death of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans.“
From www.washingtontimes.com:
“President Obama and other black leaders called for tighter access to firearms last week in reaction to the mass shooting at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, but not Kenn Blanchard.
A former Marine, Christian pastor and author of “Black Man with a Gun,” Mr. Blanchard wants more black people to protect themselves by embracing the Second Amendment and learning to use firearms, instead of reflexively siding with the gun control movement
“It hit too close to home, being a former pastor of a church, knowing that you’re almost a sitting duck because you open your church up to the herding, you don’t question people, you don’t have adequate security,” said Mr. Blanchard, who hosts a podcast through his website, BlackManWithAGun.com.
“Biblically, it’s kind of out of context, too,” he said. “If you’re going to be the shepherd of a flock — the shepherd had a really big stick. And the shepherd protected the sheep from the wolf and the bear. And the sheep felt safe because the shepherd was armed.”
Somehow, he said, “we’ve gotten away from that. We make it seem as if the gun is an evil talisman when it’s not. It’s just another tool.”
Mr. Blanchard’s response to Wednesday’s massacre is a sharp contrast to those of other black leaders, starting with Mr. Obama but including Rep. Donna F. Edwards, a Maryland Democrat who urged Congress to pass gun control bills instead of only having “yet another moment of silence.”
“I don’t think it’s inappropriate for us to talk about what we need to do to get and keep guns out of the hands of people who would commit such a tragedy,” Ms. Edwards said on “Fox News Sunday.”
Evidence suggests that Mr. Blanchard’s message is gaining followers. A Pew Research Center poll released Dec. 10 found that support among blacks for the view that gun ownership increases personal safety is soaring.
“Currently, 54 percent of blacks say gun ownership does more to protect people than endanger personal safety, nearly double the percentage saying this in December 2012 (29 percent),” said the Pew analysis. “By contrast, whites’ views have shown less change: 62 percent now view guns as doing more to protect people, up from 54 percent in December.”
Mr. Blanchard, a licensed firearms instructor and former NRA lobbyist, said he sees evidence of that shift in his work as a gun rights advocate.
“In 2015, I’ve seen a growth and resurgence of firearms ownership with people of color that I haven’t seen in 25 years of being a firearms instructor, a grassroots activist and a speaker,” Mr. Blanchard said. “It’s never happened before. And folks don’t know what to do with that.”
He said the traditional aversion to firearms in the black community evolved from its unique history, from the civil rights movement’s emphasis on nonviolent protest to centuries of laws that denied blacks the right to own guns.
“It stems from our history with just guns in general. From the beginning, from the 1630s, the very first gun control law was created so that slaves and the Chinese and Native Americans couldn’t have firearms,” Mr. Blanchard said. “In the 1700s, there was a law against any person of color owning a firearm. If you have been systematically told that it’s bad to have a gun, it kind of gets into your tradition.”
During the 1960s civil rights era, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. emphasized nonviolence, “and we associate violence with guns,” Mr. Blanchard said.
Emanuel AME Church may have been targeted because of the assumption that security was lax.
Dylann Roof has been charged with nine counts of murder in the church shootings. His friend Chris Scriven, who is black, told reporters that Mr. Roof originally talked about targeting a local college.
“I don’t even think the church was his primary target, because he told us he was going for the school,” Mr. Scriven said in a televised interview. “But I don’t think he could get into the school because of the security and all that.”
In two attacks on predominantly white churches, gunmen were stopped by parishioners carrying concealed weapons: in 2007 at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, and in 2012 at the South Side Freewill Baptist Church in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
Two years ago, Detroit Police Chief James Craig put a positive spin on gun ownership in the black community by encouraging residents to protect themselves by obtaining concealed-carry permits. He later credited the 37 percent drop in robberies to more armed citizens.
“Criminals are getting the message that good Detroiters are armed and will use that weapon,” Chief Craig, who is black, told The Detroit News in January 2014.
Mr. Obama took the opposite tack Friday, saying that if Congress had passed “common-sense gun safety reforms after Newtown we might still have some more Americans with us.”
The president was referring to the 2012 massacre at a Connecticut elementary school that left 26 dead.“
From www.breitbart.com:
“On July 20, Moms Demand Action president Shannon Watts admitted, “we’re still learning the facts about what happened in Chattanooga,” then she called for more gun control.
To do this, Watts took the few facts that are known, twisted them ever so slightly, then regurgitated them in a way she believes will support gun control.
For example, she took the FBI’s statement that alleged Chattanooga gunman Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez passed a background check for at least “some” of the guns he had during the attack and interpreted it to mean Abdulazeez “took advantage of the online gun sale loophole and purchased at least one of his firearms where he knew he could buy a gun with no background check, no questions asked.”
For those keeping count, the “online gun sale loophole” is in addition to Watts’s “gun show loophole, “the “background check loophole,” and her newly-minted “Charleston Loophole.”
Anyway, so Watts is now suggesting a new loophole exists because Abdulazeez passed a background check for only “some” of his guns. In her mental paradigm, that makes the other gun illegal and makes the place where it was purchased—Watts suggests it was purchased online—part of a loophole that needs government oversight.
Somehow, it has yet to dawn on Watts that Abdulazeez was not barred from gun possession. He was not on the FBI watchlist, and he did not have criminal record to prevent him from passing a background check. Thus he did pass a background check for at least “some” of his guns.
Someone who can legally own guns—in this case, Abdulazeez—buys a gun legally whether he buys it from Walmart, Cabela’s, his neighbor, or a classified ad. At Walmart and Cabela’s, he has to go through a background check, but with his neighbor or a classified ad he does not. However, all four are equally legal when the buyer—in this case, Abdulazeez—had no criminal record to forbid the purchase.
So Watts began by admitting she doesn’t know all the facts then continued by ignoring the numerous facts that are known, not only about Chattanooga but also about gun purchasing. In the end, her article is just a nuanced politicization of another tragedy—this time, Chattanooga—issued in hopes of shaming Congress into infringing further on the Second Amendment.“
From www.westernjournalism.com:
“Tomi Lahren, the anchor of On Point with Tomi Lahren on One America News Network (OANN), ended her program Saturday by excoriating President Obama for not affirming the attack in Chattanooga was the result of “radical Islam” and not “workplace violence.”
Lahren, originally from Rapid City, S.D., was given the opportunity to host a show on OANN at 22-years-old last September after graduating from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. “Four United States Marines are now dead,” Lahren said. “Climate change didn’t kill them. Lack of free community college didn’t kill them. The income gap, wage inequality — nope, not those things either. Gay marriage? Nope. Oh, white racism? Not that either. So what did?“
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