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Dear Michael Moore, just a friendly heads up that the same Martin Luther King you’re quoting to make your nonsensical anti-gun argument, is the same Martin Luther King who — wait for it, wait for it — owned guns!
UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler, via Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit:
King applied for a concealed carry permit in Alabama. The local police had discretion to determine who was a suitable person to carry firearms. King, a clergyman whose life was threatened daily, surely met the requirements of the law, but he was rejected nevertheless. At the time, the police used any wiggle room in the law to discriminate against African Americans.
Glenn Reynolds closes with this: Give the authorities discretion, and it will be abused.
Remember everyone, there are only certain parts of the Bill of Rights the Left is in favor of. They can shove Freedom of Speech all the way over to allowing the New York Times to print national security leaks while we’re at war and find the right to abortion in a non-existent right to privacy, but this whole Right to Bear Arms thing remains fuzzy and therefore negotiable.
Jim Treacher destroys the rest of Moore’s argument here.