If "Blue Lives Matter," how come conservatives won't back gun control to save cops?
If "Blue Lives Matter," how come conservatives won't back gun control to save cops?
A shooter injured six cops in Philly, but the right still rejects gun control that could keep officers safer
AMANDA MARCOTTE at Salon
https://www.salon.com/2019/08/15/if-blue-lives-matter-how-come-conservatives-wont-back-gun-control-to-save-cops/
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In response to the growth of the Black Lives Matter movement — which addresses police violence against civilians, among other things — angry conservatives retaliated by creating the pseudo-movement "Blue Lives Matter." That phrase was meant to imply that people who want to reduce civilian killings by police are trying to get cops killed, and that conservatives are the only ones who are standing up for the boys in blue who keep our streets safe. Donald Trump, unsurprisingly, has run with this line of argument, using it, as well as showy and insincere displays of patriotism, to attack black celebrities who speak out against racism.
It turns out, however, that when given a choice between protecting "blue lives" and defending ridiculously lax gun laws, conservatives will always choose the latter. That was amply demonstrated after Wednesday's mass shooting in Philadelphia, in which six police officers were injured and two were held hostage during an hours-long standoff with a heavily armed man who was trying to evade arrest on drug charges.
"When will it stop, right?" presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., told CNN's Wolf Blitzer as the standoff was ongoing. "Part of my focus on what we need to do around smart gun safety laws is we have to have more enforcement around gun dealers."
Right-wing America responded, as it generally does, by immediately prioritizing guns over human lives — in this case, the lives of police officers.
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versus bad guy with a gun" theory.
My son is NYPD and my husband was FDNY. They can tell you stories about the tragedies that occur (either by impulse or by accident) because a good guy (or someone who presented as a good guy) happened to have a gun.
For all gun victims
