MSNBC host Al Sharpton said he believed a “lack” of gun control in the United States civil rights era was “arming bigots.”
During a Friday’s edition of “Deadline,” Anchor Nicolle Wallace said, “Kamala Harris will lead this effort. She spoke today about witnessing firsthand the impacts of gun violence during her time as a prosecutor and attorney general.”
Sharpton responded:
“Absolutely. The fact that she has an effective background as a prosecutor, she wasn’t just holding the title, and dealt with this in California, dealt with it when she was D.A. of San Francisco.”
“It was a good choice of the president to put her there,” he said.
“And I know she’ll be all in,” Sharpton added.
He continued:
“This is the most dangerous time, particularly for young people, that we have seen in American history.”
“And yet, you have almost a wall there of people saying, no, we’re not giving up our AR-15s, we’re not giving up not even background checks,” Sharpton said.
Sharpton added:
“We just had the hate killing in Jacksonville, Florida.”
“This guy had an AR-15. So even whether you want to look at it from advocating in terms of civil rights, advocating just on guns, it weighs in because people cannot do mass killings unless they have mass instruments.”
“We are arming bigots; we are arming people that are not respectful of the United States citizens,” Al Sharpton said on lack of gun control.
“All of these people are being armed by a lack of legislation.”
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Sharpton’s remarks came days after New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisha updated her order to suspend firearms to playgrounds and parks in Albuquerque after a federal judge blocked a broader order.
The Democrat declared that gun violence and drug abuse were a public health emergency earlier this month.
Lujan Grisham asked reporters to envision a “perfect world” where a ban on firearms would allow police to focus on “the real criminals.”
“No constitutional right, in my view, including my oath, is intended to be absolute,” she said.
“There are restrictions on free speech; there are restrictions on my freedoms,” she continued before listing victims of gun violence.
However, a backlash ensued.
Even gun control activist David Hogg took a stance against Grisham’s gun ban in cities such as Albuquerque.
David Hogg reacted to Grisham’s gun ban order with an X post, saying, “I support gun safety, but there is no such thing as a state public health emergency exception to the US Constitution.”
X owner Elon Musk also responded to Grisham’s gun ban, saying she did so by “illegally” violating the Second Amendment.
“At risk of stating what should be obvious, deliberately violating the Constitution is next-level illegal. How soon can this person be removed from office?”
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