This stupid idea that an organization’s mistakes means to have it disappear is asinine. I wonder how many of those who actually believe that line of bullshit own Ruger and Smith and Wesson firearms.
It took two or three years, ending with the Cincinnati Revolt to remove the old school NRA leadership. We are now in month what? Three? Four? I hope it gets solved fast and Wayne finally leaves, but I am realistic enough that it won’t (can’t) happen in a snap of the finger, specially with lawsuit back and forth.
Stop playing Bloomberg’s game and I will stop insulting you. It is that simple.
I get it. It is the thesis of the Left that America is intrinsically a White Supremacist nation, and therefore it must go easy on violent White Supremacists and go extra hard on Muslim extremists.
The evidence for that is that violent White Supremacists are not “domestic terrorists” while Muslims are, and clearly, that is bigotry.
The clip in AOC’s Tweet is very selectively edited (a big shock) and a much less edited video is available below:
Congresswoman and Islamic Terrorist supporter, Rashida Tlaib, also got into this line of questioning.
Despite all her crying, both AOC and Tlaib don’t seem to know the law.
FBI Assistant Director of Counterterrorism Michael McGarrity, tired his best to explain the law. It is 18 U.S. Code § 2339 under 18 U.S. Code chapter 113 – Terrorism. Code § 2339 prohibits providing aid, training, support, or financial assistance to an international terrorist group. That is defined by 18 U.S. Code § 2331.
Simply put, “domestic terrorism” is a nice buzzword but it is not a criminal statute or something a person could be convicted of.
They can be charged with aiding an international terrorist organization.
The San Bernardino shooters and Pulse shooter both pledged allegiance to ISIS and the global Jihad movement, which made them supporters of an international terrorist organization.
Dylann Roof did not. And while AOC can postulate that White Supremacism is a global problem, it is not as organized as ISIS. Shit posters on 8Chan are not engaged in a multi-national money laundering operation to fund terrorism using means as diverse as selling oil from captured Iraqi wells to the ransom of cargo ships off the African coast.
Domestic terrorism is merely a classification the FBI uses in working an investigation.
AOC and Tlaib didn’t seem to get that the issue isn’t with the FBI it is with the legislature. In addition, the Legislature is held back by the Constitution.
The reason groups like the Ku Klux Klan is allowed to exists and can’t just be taken down by declaring them a “domestic terrorist organization” is the text of the First Amendment:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The Right of Assembly allows groups like the Klan to exist. The challenge for law enforcement has been to sift through the Klan (and other groups like it) for the fraction of members that can be proven to have committed the crimes in the name of the Klan. Simply charging the entire clan as a group is unconstitutional. I’m also talking about the Klan in modern times (post 1950’s), not the Klan during Reconstruction.
The same prohibitions prevent mass arrests of Muslims at the “Terror Mosque” in New Jersey that has had a number of members radicalized.
That right does not belong to non-US citizens outside the borders of the United States.
Rather than try to understand this and try to figure out how to make new law to deal with the variety of threats this nation faces, AOC and Tlaib would rather just try and prove their thesis that America is a racist nation.
Also, reading between the lines, it seems like they want to FBI to go easier on Islamic extremists.
The “I Hate The NRA” game reached new levels by people declaring that the greatest advancement in Gun Rights of the 20th Century and the beginning of the avalanche in our favor is a hindrance and unconstitutional.
The level of imbecile
The logic part of me is saying that we cannot have people this stupid within our movement. They have to be well-paid plants or trolls, but not this irrevocably ignorant gun owners moved to re-write history because it is cool to hate the NRA.
We were a nation with few states having any kind of carry. Whatever carry we had was May Issue and the issuance and laws changed within state from county to county. We are now a country where all 50 states have Concealed Carry which had led the way for 13 States to have Constitutional Carry and hopefully more in the way. Alongside with CWP, we have expanded Stand Your Ground, and Immunity From Prosecution, reinforced Castle Doctrine and even managed to get a couple of interestingly favorable cases in the Supreme Court to fall for the Second Amendment.
But no. That movement is bogus because the NRA did not get Constitutional Carry from day one.
What is next? To say that Gun Rights are valid only if you belong to a Militia?
And then there is the little detail that anybody who actually does gardening in June, does not look that fresh and that clean. The frigging gloves are so brand new, the hand with the flowers looks strange and the other hand digging does not have a speck of dirt on the glove of the handle of the little spade.
