Why Isn’t the NRA Defending Ferguson’s Blacks?

JACK BOOTS

Every dystopian warning of the gun group has come true in Missouri, yet the organization is offering no sympathy for the African American victims.

Published Aug. 19 2014 1:00PM EDT

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The National Rifle Association has been warning us about the threat of a heavily-armed and dangerous government crushing dissent for decades. Their leader, Wayne LaPierre, even referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as "jack-booted

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Why Isn’t the NRA Defending Ferguson’s Blacks?

Every dystopian warning of the gun group has come true in Missouri, yet the organization is offering no sympathy for the African American victims.

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Cliff Schecter