Hands down the WORST white supremacist rally I’ve ever seen! I mean they let me speak and everything. People shaking my hands and stuff. What would MLK do if he saw all of these people judging me by the content of my character instead of the color of my skin? #MLKDay pic.twitter.com/ah0hDWGcCY
— Antonia Okafor Cover (@antonia_okafor) January 20, 2020
During his 11:00 a.m. ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC anchor Craig Melvin falsely and outrageously claimed that a gun rights rally taking place in Richmond, Virginia was being attended by “Armed militia, white nationalist groups from all over the country.” Despite having no evidence of such a claim, he repeated his assertion while introducing a report on the peaceful demonstration.
“This is the scene in Richmond. Armed militia, white nationalist groups from all over the country taking part on MLK day,” Melvin ranted as he teased an upcoming segment on the rally. He warned that the event was “Raising fears of a dangerous confrontation” in the capital of the commonwealth.
Minutes later, while teeing up a live report from the protest, Melvin again lied to viewers: “Right now, thousands of guns rights activists, white nationalists, militia groups all swarming the Virginia state capitol in Richmond.”Reporter Cal Perry feared: “Thousands of people, as you said, heavily, heavily armed….And lawmakers will tell you that is an intimidation tactic. That they are trying to change or stop the legislation that will be enacted soon.” He eagerly touted the new gun restrictions since recent state elections “flipped Virginia blue.”
“Now, the concern is that these militia groups, some of these more extremist groups….Authorities are worried those groups will come into town and we could see a repeat of what we saw in 2017 in Charlottesville,” Perry declared.
Without evidence, Perry then claimed that he saw “militia leaders” who took part in Charlottesville “on the ground this morning.” He never identified any of those people or showed any footage of such groups taking part in the Second Amendment rally.
If you have to declare an emergency to protect yourself from your own voters, you might be a tyrant.
Those that lie and say this was about background checks never read the laws they were trying to pass at that time. No gun ranges at facilities that hire more than 50 people, a direct shot at the National Rifle Association headquarters, who trains in safety and accuracy with a firearm.
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20191125/bloomberg-bought-virginia-legislators-introduce-confiscatory-gun-ban
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20200116/virginia-senate-passes-three-anti-gun-bills
Lots of fringes the media is not honest enough to say they are making criminals of law abiding citizens who wont know every restriction in the State.
And on that, he is probably correct. If Democrat seeking to disarm the public so they can usher in their police state or right-robbing oppression, they are inviting a dangerous confrontation. Because, we aren’t going to sit idly by and have our rights whittled away.
But, for now those protesters showed, first, that armed citizens are inherently peaceful and law abiding and, second, that the left (including the media) are liars.
Gee, if you have all these dangerous, hair-trigger, violent, vicious “white supremacists”, ARMED, why no violence? What MORE do you need? Oh, right… you need ANTIFA or Black Lives Matter to show up and START the violence.