Article from Reason by J.D. Tuccille.
What purpose is served by the American Civil Liberties Union? I know that the words “civil liberties” appear right there in the name, but it’s increasingly difficult to take that seriously as the organization’s mission. Just a month after leaked internal ACLU case-selection guidelines revealed the organization to be stepping back from viewpoint-neutral advocacy of free speech rights, the ACLU claims that vigorous advocacy for self-defense rights is to blame for government expansion of the security state.
“Mass shootings create a pervasive sense of insecurity and anxiety that politicians and policymakers will inevitably seek to address,” senior policy analyst Jay Stanley insists on the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project blog. As a result, he argues, “those who support expansive gun rights as a protection against excessive government power should strongly consider how much government intrusion and expanded power they’re willing to trade for those rights.”
This is the old “why do you make him hit you?” argument applied to civil liberties. It excuses the actions of the abuser—the state in this case—as reactions to the missteps of the abused. But it’s actually a step further removed, because most gun owners fly entirely below the state’s radar. They’re among the general population getting slapped by policies that politicians justify as responses to the crimes of a tiny minority.
This is also a blame-the-innocent argument that can be applied to so many civil liberties.
Read the entire article at Reason.
ACLU’s always hated the @nd Anendment.
No one is as stupid as the ACLU thinks they are…except Liberals.
lol How very true.
The ACLU gave us the special privileged snowflakes of the”LMNOPXYZ” (gaystapo or rainbow mafia, if you prefer); and it gave us the AIDS epidemic; GREAT contributions to the “betterment of America” (NOT)! Oh, and they’re helping block build the wall while supporting the illegal invaders who actually have NO rights here except to LEAVE and never return. I see them as an avowed enemy of America and American citizens, which we need to eliminate, with prejudice if that’s what it takes!