Marchelle Tigner, known to her students and others as "Tig," is on a mission: to train at least 1 million women how to shoot a firearm. She had spent no time around guns before joining the National Guard. Now, as a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, she wants to give other women of color the training she hadn't had.
"It's important, especially for black women, to learn how to shoot," Tigner said, noting that black women are more likely to be victims of domestic violence. "We need to learn how to defend ourselves."
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The great equalizer.
Power to the minorities.
Power to the minorities.
Some people have it exactly backwards.Guns made the civil rights movement possible? What about the philosophy of nonviolence embraced by most prominent civil rights leaders, such as Martin Luther King Jr.?
As Cobb, a journalist and veteran civil rights activist, explains, for many civil rights activists in the South, nonviolence did not rule out "armed self-defense," which meant keeping firearms. "In these communities, where the law was generally weighted against them, armed self-defense was a natural response to white terror," he writes.
Inspired by the staged “sit-in” for gun control conducted by Democrats in the House of Representatives the week of June 20, Hillary Clinton said during a campaign speech in Chicago a week later “saving [people] from gun violence is a civil rights issue.”
Correctly speaking, civil rights are those that are protected against infringement by government and its agents. Of course, Clinton doesn’t see the obvious contradiction in her statement when her object is to attack and undermine the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens at every turn.
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I have been called racial slurs by "White nationalists" and by White gun control advocates.
So far, the frequency is about 10:1 in favor of the latter.
Gun control is NEVER about guns, ALWAYS about CONTROL.
So far, the frequency is about 10:1 in favor of the latter.
Gun control is NEVER about guns, ALWAYS about CONTROL.
Life comes at you fast. Be prepared to shoot it in the head when it does.
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Funny. This is admirable...and overall a good thing for the 2nd Amendment cause in this country...BUT...it seems discriminatory. If I did the same thing...insert the words MALE and WHITE in place of the words women and color/black in the above article...people would attack me and call me "sexist" and "racist".Marchelle Tigner, known to her students and others as "Tig," is on a mission: to train at least 1 million women how to shoot a firearm. She had spent no time around guns before joining the National Guard. Now, as a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, she wants to give other women of color the training she hadn't had.
"It's important, especially for black women, to learn how to shoot," Tigner said, noting that black women are more likely to be victims of domestic violence. "We need to learn how to defend ourselves."
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Can't be a member of the ruling majority and pretend the transitive property is applicable. Silly argument, really.glocksmith wrote:Funny. This is admirable...and overall a good thing for the 2nd Amendment cause in this country...BUT...it seems discriminatory. If I did the same thing...insert the words MALE and WHITE in place of the words women and color/black in the above article...people would attack me and call me "sexist" and "racist".Marchelle Tigner, known to her students and others as "Tig," is on a mission: to train at least 1 million women how to shoot a firearm. She had spent no time around guns before joining the National Guard. Now, as a survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, she wants to give other women of color the training she hadn't had.
"It's important, especially for black women, to learn how to shoot," Tigner said, noting that black women are more likely to be victims of domestic violence. "We need to learn how to defend ourselves."
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OH my...somebody help me...it appears I've been short-changed. I'm a White Male, but it seems someone forgot to give me my wealth and my power/authority over women and minorities.westsidebestside wrote:Can't be a member of the ruling majority and pretend the transitive property is applicable. Silly argument, really.
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The operative phrase used by the protected class is systemic wealth and systemic power/authority, rather than an individual, that way I'm okay/you're okay.glocksmith wrote:OH my...somebody help me...it appears I've been short-changed. I'm a White Male, but it seems someone forgot to give me my wealth and my power/authority over women and minorities.westsidebestside wrote:Can't be a member of the ruling majority and pretend the transitive property is applicable. Silly argument, really.