Where was the NRA on Trayvon Martin's right to stand his ground?

[kpete]

If there was a mass movement in Florida to arm young black men, Florida would pass the strongest gun control laws in the nation and Rick Scott would sign it so fast it would make your head spin.

Sometimes, silence is much more revealing than those words actually spoken. Such is the case with respect to how the NRA has responded to the George Zimmerman verdict: with virtual silence.

One might expect the NRA to respond to Trayvon Martin's death by calling upon young, black men across this country to arm themselves, since the only way to truly protect oneself from the threat of violene in this country is to own a firearm. To exercise one's Second Amendment right.

After all, that's how it's responded to any number of shootings in which white people have been killed in mass shootings.

Of course, by expect, I mean the opposite, an ironic point made by a Tweet yesterday from Anonymous:
https://twitter.com/youranonnews/status/356904209301504002

Robin D.G. KelleyAuthor, 'Africa Speaks, America Answers: Modern Jazz in Revolutionary Times'

The U.S. v. Trayvon Martin: How the System Worked
Posted: 07/15/2013 1:40 pm


Where was the NRA on Trayvon Martin's right to stand his ground? What happened to their principled position? Let's be clear: the Trayvon Martin's of the world never had that right because the "ground" was never considered theirs to stand on. Unless black people could magically produce some official documentation proving that they are not burglars, rapists, drug dealers, pimps or prostitutes, intruders, they are assumed to be "up to no good." (In the antebellum period, such documentation was called "freedom papers.&quot As Wayne LaPierre, NRA's executive vice president, succinctly explained their
position, "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun." Trayvon Martin was a bad guy or at least looked and acted like one. In our allegedly postracial moment, where simply talking about racism openly is considered an impolitic, if not racist, thing to do, we constantly learn and re-learn racial codes. The world knows black men are criminal, that they populate our jails and prisons, that they kill each other over trinkets, that even the celebrities among us are up to no good. Zimmerman's racial profiling was therefore justified, and the defense consistently employed racial stereotypes and played on racial knowledge to turn the victim into the predator and the predator into the victim. In short, it was Trayvon Martin, not George Zimmerman, who was put on trial. He was tried for the crimes he may have committed and the ones he would have committed had he lived past 17. He was tried for using lethal force against Zimmerman in the form of a sidewalk and his natural athleticism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-d-g-kelley/nra-stand-your-ground-trayvon-martin_b_3599843.html

[rustydog]

1. Tne NRA (Nuts Readily Armed)

is usually resoundingly silent after these shootings. LaPissant will be raising his ugly head soon enough.
Poopy Pants Nugent has already opened his yap....As if that means anything.

[muntrv]

3. About Ted Poopypants...

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/16/1224130/-Ted-Nugent-on-Martin-enraged-black-man-child-Skittles-hoodie-boy

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. But his one shouldn't be gun owners. You know.

His kind.

[sigmasix]

4. the NRA says trayvon is prey for cowardly predators

Cowardly NRA members see young african American men as prey. The NRA wouldn't expand rights for a duck- they certainly don't give a fuck about Trayvon's human rights- as they don't see him as a human being.
Cowardly NRA members need to have unarmed African American children to kill to prove their commitment to the racist teabagger ideology. I've never met an NRA member that wasn't a coward. How is it they can combine such extremes in hatred and cowardice? Fear is the NRA's main mover. It's amazing that so many cowardly racists are combined under the same organization- sure makes it easy to see who the real enemies of America are.