Philando Castile’s mother is calling BS on NaziRacistAsshole Wayne LaPierre for regurgitating the meme that “to stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a good guy with a gun” at CPAC.
Valerie Castile told The NY Daily News:
“If he really cared about the good guys out here, he would have stood up for my son. It’s about money. This country is run off money. Everybody wants a piece.”
“My son was one of the good guys, but him being black, obviously they didn’t see him as a good guy. They’ve yet to say anything about my son.”
Philando Castile, 32, was a licensed gun owner with a valid concealed carry permit and no criminal record beyond a series of alleged traffic violations. He was also a longtime cafeteria manager for the St. Paul school district when he was pulled over on July 6, 2016, and shot to death by St. Anthony Police officer Jeronimo Yanez.
RawStory has an excellent post by Thom Hartmann that details how the Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery, and, as ammosexuals believe that the US Constitution begins and ends with the 2nd, Thom’s post dovetails nicely with Valerie Castile’s observation that one of the primary reasons her son was murdered by one of the bad guys is that
...[Philando] being black, obviously they didn’t see him as a good guy.
Mr Hartmann gets right to the point with his opening paragraph...
The real reason the Second Amendment was ratified, and why it says “State” instead of “Country” (the Framers knew the difference – see the 10th Amendment), was to preserve the slave patrol militias in the southern states, which was necessary to get Virginia’s vote. Founders Patrick Henry, George Mason, and James Madison were totally clear on that . . . and we all should be too.
Thom then proceeds, as he usually does, to fill in so many details that any attempt at denial becomes all but an impossibility. Personally, I believe that this posting is one of the strongest cases I have read for repealing and replacing the 2nd — though to be clear Thom does not explicitly state this.
Though the pace of rectifying the wrongs the Founders burdened the country with has been glacial, sometimes glaciers cleave and disrupt the prevailing “peace”. During NaziRacistAsshole Wayne LaPierre’s speech at CPAC signs of such a disruption began to emerge:
But the speech didn’t seem to go over well with younger conservative activists, [reporter Jeremy] Peters said, prompting LaPierre to re-enact Jeb Bush’s infamous “please clap” moment.
“The room was not with Wayne LaPierre yesterday,” Peters said. “Actually, at one point he stopped and he said, ‘I sense it’s a little quiet out there.’ It was quiet, he said, because they must be scared and all gun owners should be. But the reason they were quiet is because they weren’t buying what he was selling.”
Mon, when even kkkonservatives call BS on your BS, then maybe it’s time to think about relocating to a more friendly environment. St. Petersburg, perhaps?