NRA Silent as Amir Locke Slain by Police for Having a Gun He Legally Owned

Without commenting on the overall Locke situation, The NRA is caught between the Police Lobby and public gun owners on this one.

Here is a quote from Minnesota gun owners association: "A gun-rights group highlighted the timing of the raid, saying it appeared from the video that Locke was awakened by a confusing array of commands from officers pointing lights and guns at him.
“Mr. Locke did what many of us might do in the same confusing circumstances, he reached for a legal means of self-defense while he sought to understand what was happening,” said Rob Doar, a spokesman for the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus."

The NRA unfortunately is not what it used to be.

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"February 7 2022, 12:25 p.m.
THE FIRST GUN control organization in the United States was formed after the Civil War by white Southerners bothered by the fact that enslaved people were now free, entitled to vote, and arming themselves to defend that freedom. The group called itself the Ku Klux Klan and organized for the first time in 1866. They were often made up of local leaders like sheriffs and judges, and would use the force of law to disarm Black communities before rampaging through them.

“Before these midnight marauders made attacks upon peaceful citizens, there were very many instances in the South where the sheriff of the county had preceded them and taken away the arms of their victims,” said Rep. Benjamin Butler in 1871, pushing for passage of laws aimed at taking down the Klan. “This was especially noticeable in Union County, where all the Negro population were disarmed by the sheriff only a few months ago under the order of the judge…; and then, the sheriff having disarmed the citizens, the five hundred masked men rode at nights and murdered and otherwise maltreated the ten persons who were in jail in that county.”

Silence is bad, but it could be worse for Amir Locke. Philando Castle legally owned his gun, but NRA condoned his death by police in 2016 because of marijuana possession.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dana-loesch-nra-philando-castile_n_598ce48fe4b090964295fa09