The NRA has been reeling in recent months due to allegations of dubious, and possibly fraudulent, spending. This has led to all kinds of infighting and serious allegations between NRA executive vice president Wayne LaPierre and ex-president Oliver North. It’s like watching two pigs roll around in sugar honey ice tea. In April, 80-year-old Carolyn Meadows became the new president of guns. Her big media push is that she is going to take back those seats that the NRA failed to secure in the blue wave of 2018. In a recent tough-talking interview with the Marietta Daily Journal, Meadows explained her position on arming teachers and clergy.
“I believe in arming teachers. Absolutely. In my church, I’m armed. My pastor is a shooter, a hunter, he knows I am, people in the congregation do,” she says. “This is not NRA position, but as far as I’m concerned, I’d love to have a sign out front: ‘We have gun-toting teachers and security.’ (Mass shooters) go where the people are weak.”
That’s right. Not: let’s stop mass shooters from being mass shooters. Not: let’s try and make sure that people who shouldn’t have access to firearms do not have access to firearms. Meadows’ position is, Go where there are people without guns! Go and kill those people! And one of Meadows’ first points of order to is to help Republicans take back the congressional seat won this past November by Rep. Lucy McBath. McBath ran on a gun safety platform—and won—as the mother of a child killed because of gun violence. But just in case you forgot what the NRA’s stance on black people talking about guns is:
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“There will be more than one person in the race, but we'll get that seat back,” Meadows said. “But it is wrong to say like McBath said, that the reason she won was because of her anti-gun stance. That didn't have anything to do with it — it had to do with being a minority female. And the Democrats really turned out, and that's the problem we have with conservatives — we don't turn out as well.”
That’s right. The woman who ran with the specific expertise on gun violence, for gun safety laws, won her district in Marietta, Georgia, because she was a black woman.
Yes, the House of Representatives, in which 23 percent of members (as of this last election) are women, and 4 percent are black, is probably best known for its overrepresentation of women and people of color. (The italicized lines are me being gratingly sarcastic through gritted teeth.) The NRA, at this point in our history, represents one thing: weapons sales for a white supremacist economic model and system. That’s it.
For every Second Amendment handwringing about President Obama stealing your guns, there’s always stark silence when law-abiding people of color are murdered by police officers. It’s not a coincidence that Philando Castile, shot dead by a police officer in broad daylight as he went to show his very legal permit to carry, isn’t on every poster and at every NRA-sponsored gun rally. Because it’s people like Philando Castile that the NRA and its members are truly afraid of: black people who want to be treated the same as everybody else.
The state, in their opinion, is there to protect whites from everyone else, like a 1920s movie cowboy. Meadows is just reminding everyone what this is all about. It’s about making sure that these “minorities” stop acting like the majority in areas where they are, in fact, the majority.
Let Rep. McBath explain how and why she is now representing Marietta.