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Liberals TRIGGERED Over Martin Luther King Day Gun Sale

On a day that has been set aside to honor the memory of slain civil rights icon Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. it is a disgrace that so many on the left have chosen to make it all about divisive racial politics.

Instead of commemorating King’s inspiration to millions, the usual suspects are spending the say soiling their bloomers over the silliest things but that is how the left has weaponized race in the post-Obama era.

What has triggered our precious little snowflakes now?

How about an Albuquerque, New Mexico gun store that is having an MLK Day sale?

That’s correct. There is much caterwauling over a private enterprise’s holiday promotion offering a discount to shoppers on a federal holiday when there are people off of work and with more money in their pockets thanks to President Trump’s tax reform.

Albuquerque’s KRQE-13 reports on this silliness:

Some are calling it disturbing and ironic. A New Mexico gun shop owner is defending his Martin Luther King Jr. Day advertisement that’s circulating in a local newspaper. He even said the ad aligns with the mission of Dr. King.

Plastered alongside women’s basketball scores in the sports section of Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal, Los Ranchos Gun Shop is promoting 10 percent off all accessories with the purchase of a gun for MLK Day.

“Certainly, Martin Luther King Day for the past three years has been a tremendous sales day for us. People have the day off,” said gun shop owner Mark Abramson.

Mention the ad, and it’s an additional 5 percent off. However, many say they’re bothered by the sales tactic.

“There’s irony and I haven’t seen any other businesses have a sale for Martin Luther King and it’s so ironic that it’s a gun shop,” said Hanz Herdia.

That irony, as some have pointed out on social media, is because of what Dr. King stood for: non-violence and peaceful protest. Not to mention, the civil rights leader was assassinated with a gun in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.

“I do think it’s in bad taste and I’m sure other people have used historical figures to sell things but it also helps to reflect their morals and it doesn’t in this case,” said Allen Marquez.

Abramson said he didn’t mean to offend anyone.

The owner than goes on to add:

“I thought it was an appropriate depiction of Dr. King. We celebrate some of the freedoms we have because of the work he did,” Abramson said.

He believes the ad is consistent with Dr. King’s mission of equality.

“Jim Crow laws and things that happened immediately after the civil war and continued for almost 100 years denied blacks, denied minorities the right to defend themselves while the majority could do that. Dr. King fought against that,” Abramson said.

Hot-headed liberal ignoramuses would probably be shocked to learn that King himself was a gun owner. He would have had to be an idiot to not be considering how many people wanted him dead.

This inconvenient fact is pointed out by the good folks over at Bearing Arms:

Well, one gun store decided to have a Martin Luther King, Jr. Birthday sale and ran an ad. Some are less than pleased with the idea.

Except, well, it seems that Dr. King was a gun owner.

That’s right. You see, while Dr. King advocated for nonviolence when it came to protesting segregation, he wasn’t an idiot. He understood there would be people who would want to see him dead, and he prepared for that.

The article cites UCLA law professor Adam Winkler from his book Gunfight:

Most people think King would be the last person to own a gun. Yet in the 1956, as the civil rights movement heated up, King turned to firearms for self-protection and he even applied for a permit to carry a concealed weapon.

Again, it is utterly asinine to believe the Dr. King didn’t own guns but try explaining that to a liberal. Good luck.

Bearing Arms then slams the coffin on the liberal argument and pounds in the nails:

That’s really the origin of gun control. The purpose of early gun control laws was to disarm blacks. This is especially true in the Deep South immediately following the Civil War, but was also true throughout the nation. While laws were written in such a way that they weren’t focused on ethnicity, that was only to sneak them by the carpetbaggers and others who would have shut down any attempt at simply disarming blacks.

Instead, they simply wrote laws that would, theoretically, apply to everyone, all while knowing that no white sheriff would arrest a white man for these “crimes.”

Eventually, they were applied to everyone, but in a world where statues are yanked down because of racism and anything with supposedly racist ties is denigrated, why is gun control still viable? If anything hurt blacks in rural communities, it was laws that inhibited their ability to defend themselves from racists.

Connecting Dr. King to a gun store sale? Makes perfect sense to me.

There you have it liberals and race-baiters. It is silly to throw a temper tantrum on a day like this when Dr. King himself was an advocate of gun ownership as well as the history of how blacks were disarmed in the Jim Crow era.

Today’s MLK Day Special Bonus Question: Which was the party that was the biggest backers of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, and Jim Crow laws?

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