It's easier to make this statement when it is already known that:
- The victim had no record.
- The victim had a CCW.
- The victim wasn't on the warrant.
- The cops murdered an innocent man doing nothing wrong.
"A Minnesota gun rights organization issued a statement condemning the killing of 22-year-old Amir Locke, who was shot by a SWAT team on Wednesday."
We usually don't know those details so soon after the event. If the NRA comes out in support of the victim and a week later everyone know he was a pedophile with a long list of ruined children behind him, then Shannon Watts says, "The NRA supports pedophiles." So the NRA waits will the furor dies down.
But the NRA should take after the MN Gun-Owner Caucus in circumstance similar to this one even if some go "The NRA takes the side against the thin blue line! They must hate the police now!"
With all the troubles the NRA is having, I'm not sure that they should be in the business of commenting on shootings at all. Commenting on one and not commenting on another leaves them open to attack from both sides.
ReplyDeleteStick with training and 2A advocacy, which should be their core competencies.