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'Gun control' advocates' arrests highlight irony and hypocrisy
February 8, 2014
In an incident seen by some as a bit of supreme irony, a local "gun control" proponent has been arrested on two felony charges for bringing a concealed handgun into a New York elementary school, causing "an hours long lockdown," The Buffalo News reported Friday.
"Dwayne Ferguson ... was a well-known face in the movement for the SAFE Act, the state law that made carrying a gun on school property a felony," the report explains. "He was among local activists who stood with Assemblywoman Crystal Peoples-Stokes last year lobbying for a law that would make possessing a gun on school property a felony. Prior to New York State's adoption of the SAFE Act last year, in response to the Sandy Hook school massacre in Connecticut, it was a long-established state law that guns could not be brought onto school property. The only difference was that the crime carried less punishment as a misdemeanor."
What's telling is the reaction of Ferguson's apologists, offering excuses and justifications. "Associates defend man who had gun in school," the article headline states, adding the subhead "Say he made honest mistake in incident prompting school lockdown."
While the observations of some, coming to the realization that a good person with a gun on school grounds can provide protective benefits, is hopeful, it also seems fair to wonder if the same support would be offered should a gun rights advocate be caught in similar circumstances. That's because such one-sided support for citizen disarmament proponents running afoul of the law is hardly unique, as another recent story illustrates.
"On January 15th, Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence supporter and Massachusetts state representative Carlos Henriquez ... was sentenced to six months in jail for punching a woman who refused to have sex with him," AWR Hawkins reported Wednesday on Breitbart.com.
"What especially concerns me is how black leadership, most recently the NAACP, has supported Henriquez in his desperate attempt to stay in office, or has remained silent on the issue," The Rev. Mark V. Scott wrote in an opinion piece appearing today in The Boston Herald. "This is as disgraceful as the violence itself. Black leaders have, with rare exceptions, failed to raise their voices to call for Henriquez's expulsion from the Legislature."
"The Massachusetts House voted to expel jailed state Rep. Carlos Henriquez on Thursday," CBS Boston reported, over the objections of the New England NAACP, itself along with the national organization leading and longtime voices for "gun control."
And true to form, the Massachusetts Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence, the group Henriquez supported at a November State House rally, has offered no statement of acknowledgment of his conviction, let alone condemnation of his actions on their website or their Facebook page, albeit they do have plenty of posts on the latter sharing the latest demands to be disarmed by the Bloomberg Moms (BMs).
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http://www.examiner.com/article/gun-control-advocates-arrests-highlight-irony-and-hypocrisy
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This guy's defenders aren't interested in little things like logic or truth. They are saying (1) he made an "honest mistake" in bringing the gun to school--that is, he did not know he had it on him. (That's his excuse for going into the school strapped. He didn't know he had the gun on him.) And then they are also saying (2) hey, since he was armed, he could have helped the police out if there had been a bad guy in the school. Well, no, he couldn't--not if he didn't know he had his gun on him. :slap:
This is why having rational conversations with the gun control crowd is so difficult. They don't accept logic or truth as constraints.
Quote from: Moylan on February 09, 2014, 02:34:12 PM
This guy's defenders aren't interested in little things like logic or truth. They are saying (1) he made an "honest mistake" in bringing the gun to school--that is, he did not know he had it on him. (That's his excuse for going into the school strapped. He didn't know he had the gun on him.) And then they are also saying (2) hey, since he was armed, he could have helped the police out if there had been a bad guy in the school. Well, no, he couldn't--not if he didn't know he had his gun on him. :slap:
This is why having rational conversations with the gun control crowd is so difficult. They don't accept logic or truth as constraints.
Great post ! Thanx the laugh !
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..Dwayne Ferguson is what New York is made of politically. I see and hear this garbage as much as the day is long and my stomach is ill. This part of the ship the US America is already under the seawater and its good citizens are drowning. 19 million in NY State and we would be lucky to have 100 thousand Patriots left. That is half of one percent. Yes, Appleseed has its work cut out for us..
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