[FPC News] FPC Statement: Rights Are Not Privileges
Recent events in Minnesota underscore a recurring and deeply troubling theme: Government officials and commentators treating natural rights as privileges. http://www.firearmspolicy.org/fpc-statem...privileges 
They are completely missing the point. His actions, assaulting a law enforcement officer which has been framed as "coming to the aid of a woman who was being abused by a law enforcement agent with no reason" crossed the line from legal Rights, to overt criminal action. He chose his path to insert himself into a situation involving the police by attacking the police.
Put him in any other situation where a police officer is working an investigation and putting a stop to a crime and no one would bat an eye that he got himself shot repeatedly. An officer on the side of the road taking a suspect into custody and you run up and hit the cop? Getting shot. A cop wrestling with a shoplifter in the entrance of a store? You run up and "aid the suspect" by hitting the cop? Yeah, you are getting dropped. Doing it while armed? Forget about it, you're toast. Everyone keeps blaming ICE for what is happening in Minnesota but ignoring the fact that the same exact thing is happening in all 50 states and aren't resulting in this level of violence. Why? Is it ICE in Minnesota is bloodthirsty? No, it is the "protesters" constantly showing up and committing crimes. They need to start arresting them in mass and locking them up and if that doesn't work giving them a hickory attitude adjustment and then taking them to jail. |
