A black woman from the District of Columbia who lost children to "gun violence" and who advocates for the victims of unsolved murders is calling on liberal Democrats to come to grips with the Second Amendment and vote for a bill before Congress that would give D.C. a vote in the House of Representatives at the cost of rescinding the city's stringent gun control laws.
"I want my vote to be counted. I want representation in Congress. And I also want the right to bear arms," Valencia Mohammed, director of Mothers of Unsolved Murders, is quoted in the March 21 Washington Post.
Mohammed went on to note the racist history of gun control against slaves and former slaves during Reconstruction before asserting she wants "all of those rights that they were denied."
But while it's great that the Post actually printed Mohammed's views, they were buried in paragraphs 24-27 of a 35-paragraph story on how a "Gun Law Compromise May Be Unavoidable to Pass Bill."
But let's think about this a bit. Mohammed is a mother of two sons whose lives were lost to criminals breaking D.C.'s gun ban, and she doesn't blame the weapon nor does she think her city's politicians are right to fight the Second Amendment tooth-and-nail with laws that restrict law-abiding citizens' ability to keep and bear arms.
Mohammed certainly represents a position -- albeit a minority view within the liberal District -- of Washington residents who want both a vote in Congress and the right to keep and bear arms. Mohammed falls outside the elitist liberal sentiments expressed by the Post editorial board and the District's left-wing liberal Democratic establishment in the city government.
But perhaps it's not surpising that the Post doesn't view Mohammed's unique angle as a story in its own right. After all, this is the same paper that practically considers domestic abuse victims' advocates and gun rights advocates to be mutually exclusive.
—Ken Shepherd is Managing Editor of NewsBusters
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Maybe if Mohammed or her
March 21, 2009 - 23:25 ET by BlazerMaybe if Mohammed or her son's would have owned gun's also, they would'nt have become the victim's.
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When it comes to crime never
March 22, 2009 - 05:46 ET by AgnosticWhen it comes to crime never let it be said the leftist politicians never learn:
http://www.dailymail...
From the Daily Mail:
She will say: ‘It is simplistic and wrong to pretend that prison is an easy answer to all of society’s problems.’
Measures in the £100million action plan include:
‘Youth Forums’, where teenage gang members will be encouraged to meet police ‘to discuss their issues and concerns about knife crime’;
Knife referral projects, where offenders wil be confronted with the consequences of their actions. This will include visits to hospitals to see the impact of knife wounds; meetings with bereaved families of victims; and ‘hard-hitting’ weapons-awareness workshops;
More search arches and wands in pubs and clubs, greater stop-and-search operations, plus home visit and letters to parents of youths suspected of carrying knives.
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Prison is not the answer - crime prevention is the answer. While it is worth noting that Britain has been capable of keeping guns off of their street to a large extent it really only shifted. Also, there are also several related articles about knife crime related to migrants and immigrants who of course seem to have no specific description.
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Until Congress and anyone
March 22, 2009 - 08:39 ET by jgarciaUntil Congress and anyone who is against body/home defense with a gun………… can guarantee 24/7 personal protection for ALL legal citizens……..they can kiss my back side! As of right now, local law enforcement only shows up after the crime is committed and said criminals HAVE NEVER followed rules/laws why would they start following the gun banning laws, if they did, then they wouldn’t be criminals? However, we can just ditch all laws and then we would have no “criminals” to break the laws!
They scrubbed the article ?
March 22, 2009 - 10:18 ET by 10ksnookerLooks like the elves may have taken out the argument you quoted ...
Always keep a local copy of things you quote, especially if it deals with gun control.
“Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.” — James Madison
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Civil Rights
March 22, 2009 - 10:52 ET by slickwillie2001Condoleezza Rice was growing up in Birmingham, Alabama when four little girls were murdered in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church bombing, 1963. Her father was one of the men that patrolled their neighborhood with shotguns to keep the KKK out. They took the law into their hands because no one else would protect them.
The right to keep and bear arms is the most important civil right there is. Without it all the others are easy to take away.
I have never...ever owned a gun
March 22, 2009 - 12:08 ET by HeavyChevyeven living here in the rural south (not because I hated them I just never needed one) but the way how our 2nd amendment has been going under constant assault I think I will get my permit grab some lessons and stock up.
Not Minority Views
March 23, 2009 - 00:23 ET by KpajKen,
I have to say that her views on both voting and gun rights are not minority views among the people here in the DC. It's just very few OFFICIALS, if any, in regard to gun rights hold her view as well.