Anti-gun Missouri legislator plays 'race card'--badly

Missouri State Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal (D-University City) claims that those colleagues of hers who oppose her bizarrely restrictive gun bill (that would be the vast majority of her colleagues) do so only because they do not value "black lives." From the St. Louis Beacon:

"I asked people who were against my bill 'do you not care about a black life? Do you not think that a black child is equal to any other child in this state?' Because apparently there are people in this state and otherwise who don't care about a black life. ... And they have legislation such as this that puts our citizens in our communities at risk more than they already are."

So what is this bill of hers? Actually, we discussed it about a month ago. Chappelle-Nadal's SB 124 would, among other things, require parents to inform their children's schools if they kept any firearms in the house. St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner summed up the legislation's value in combating "gun violence" this way:

See--if this law had been in place in Newtown, Connecticut, the Sandy Hook massacre would . . . have been utterly unaffected, even if it had been obeyed, because the gun owner was not the parent of any student at Sandy Hook. More fundamentally, of course, is the question of even if the school does know which students live in homes with guns, how does that change anything?

Are those kids to be subjected to closer scrutiny--metal detectors, airport-style "naked x-rays," etc.? Of course not. This is all about "shaming" gun owners, as the Journal News did in New York, leading already to at least one stalking victim being found by her stalker, and at least one burglary.

But anyone who opposes this ridiculous bill, according to Chappelle-Nadal, does so out of disdain for the value of "black life."

By the way, her reference to "legislation such as this that puts our citizens in our communities at risk more than they already are," was in response to a bill that would require the NRA's "Eddie Eagle" child gun safety classes to be taught to first-graders. Teaching kids to "Stop. Don't Touch. Leave the area. Tell an adult," whenever they find a gun, somehow endangers "citizens in our communities," according to the senator.

Never mind that, though. Let's instead take a closer look at her assertion that opposition to draconian gun laws is somehow "racist."

Is Chappelle-Nadal ignorant of the fact that the "KKK began as a 'gun control' organization," or is she deliberately suppressing that inconvenient fact, because it interferes with her agenda? Is she unaware of the fact that ethnic minorities still bear the brunt of the suffering inherent to forcible citizen disarmament, or is she comfortable in the role of "No guns for Negroes" enforcer?

Incidentally, this is going on just as the Second Amendment Foundation announces its "Equal Gun Rights" campaign (see sidebar video) drawing much needed attention to the inequity of laws interfering with armed self-defense being so disproportionately prevalent in areas most plagued with violent crime.

We are also currently seeing that when African-Americans have the temerity to oppose forcible citizen disarmament, the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence dismisses their pro-liberty activism as a "fringe effort."

Keep in mind that CSGV tends to define any opposition to forcible citizen disarmament, as "fringe." and similarly characterizes acknowledgment of the fact that the Second Amendment protects the right of individuals to possess the means to resist a tyrannical government (something even the Brady Campaign eventually admitted is accepted by an overwhelming majority of Americans).

Besides, since they (very dubiously) claim the role of "Defenders of the Minority," how do they come off so cavalierly dismissing advocacy of the rights of even the "fringe"?

Oh yeah--never mind.

Update: Well, well, well--Sen. Chappelle-Nadal is apparently also a proud fan of Che Guevara. How utterly un-shocking.