{"id":77989,"date":"2017-08-18T11:22:07","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T15:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=77989"},"modified":"2017-08-18T11:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T05:16:17","slug":"aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed &#8216;Hate Groups&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_77991\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.08.15-AM.png\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups\" title=\"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed 'Hate Groups'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-77991\" title=\"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed 'Hate Groups'\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-77991\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.08.15-AM-400x251.png\" alt=\"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed 'Hate Groups'\" width=\"400\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.08.15-AM-400x251.png 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.08.15-AM-150x94.png 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.08.15-AM.png 570w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-77991\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(<em>Photo: Albin Lohr-Jones\/Sipa via AP Images<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The American Civil Liberties Union is putting its foot down when it comes to providing legal representation for those who would seek to exercise their First and Second Amendment rights simultaneously. It will no longer defend armed demonstrators!<\/p>\n<p>The ACLU is qualifying this policy change by saying it doesn\u2019t want to defend armed \u201chate groups,\u201d but one wonders if this is a slippery slope for an organization that has worked to protect and preserve the Constitutional rights of individuals for the past 100 years.<\/p>\n<p>For example, some on the Left would argue that the NRA is a hate group. Of course, it\u2019s not. But you can see how this opens up a can of worms in that it leaves it open to interpretation.\u00a0Then, there&#8217;s the other side of the coin: armed hate groups on the Left. Would the ACLU also decline to defend the new Black Panther party just as it now won&#8217;t defend the KKK?<\/p>\n<p>This announcement came on the heels of the violent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve had people with odious views, all manner of bigots. But not people who want to carry weapons and are intent on committing violence,&#8221; ACLU spokeswoman Stacy Sullivan told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-virginia-protests-aclu-idUSKCN1AY06L\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups\" title=\"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed 'Hate Groups'\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the white nationalists who showed up at the \u201cUnite the Right\u201d protest in Charlottesville were armed. But one could make an argument that they carried firearms for self-defense \u2014 not for intimidation.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, the ACLU says guns and protesting don\u2019t mix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe events of Charlottesville require any judge, any police chief and any legal group to look at the facts of any white-supremacy protests with a much finer comb,&#8221;\u00a0Anthony Romero, the ACLU\u2019s executive director told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/aclu-changes-policy-on-defending-hate-groups-protesting-with-firearms-1503010167\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups\" title=\"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed 'Hate Groups'\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If a protest group insists, \u2018No, we want to be able to carry loaded firearms,\u2019 well, we don\u2019t have to represent them. They can find someone else,&#8221; Romero continued.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, anti-gunners couldn\u2019t wait to jump on the ACLU announcement, attempting to equate gun owners with white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an important step in a battle against armed extremists that Moms Demand Action volunteers have been fighting for almost five years,\u201d said Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America. \u201cWe know all too well what it feels like to speak out when your opponents ambush your peaceful rallies or meetings with loaded, military-style rifles on their backs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why we fight to stop open carry, and push back against gun laws that would make open carry easier, at every chance we get \u2013 and often we win,\u201d she continued. \u201cAfter Charlottesville, we are resolved to only get louder about this important public safety issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See the subtle conflation? The ACLU is presumably talking about clansman and Neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Watts beef over the past five years hasn\u2019t been with these groups, rather it\u2019s been with peaceful open carry advocates, whom she called \u201carmed extremists.\u201d Her implication is that those open carry advocates are one in the same as KKK members, Neo-Nazis, and white supremacists.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s totally unfair to open carry advocates. There\u2019s a big difference between standing up for one\u2019s right to keep and bear arms and agitating for an all White Ethno-State. One accords with the U.S. Constitution and the other is batshit crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Hopefully, the ACLU doesn&#8217;t paint with too broad a brushstroke with its new policy and it will be able to differentiate between responsible gun-rights activists and clansman. \u00a0But only time will tell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Civil Liberties Union is putting its foot down when it comes to providing legal representation for those who would seek to exercise their First and Second Amendment rights simultaneously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":77991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,216],"tags":[132,607,319,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-77989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-s-h-blannelberry","9":"tag-buzz","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-open-carry","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed &#039;Hate Groups&#039;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The ACLU announced Thursday that it will no longer defend armed protestors.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"ACLU Will No Longer Defend Armed &#039;Hate Groups&#039;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The American Civil Liberties Union is putting its foot down when it comes to providing legal representation for those who would seek to exercise their First and Second Amendment rights simultaneously.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/aclu-will-no-longer-defend-armed-hate-groups\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-08-18T15:22:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-08-21T05:16:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Screen-Shot-2017-08-18-at-11.08.15-AM.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"570\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"358\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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