What would you think if you were sitting home and you suddenly saw yourself on television, identified as a suspect in the deadliest attack on law enforcement officers since the 9/11 attacks? Freaked out would be one descriptor at least. It would be worse if you were identified as a suspect simply because you were exercising your constitutional rights.
That is what happened to Mark Hughes who, as we reported while it happened last night, was mistakenly identified by the Dallas Police Department in a tweet as one of the suspects in yesterday’s deadly shootings in Dallas:
This is one of our suspects. Please help us find him!pic.twitter.com/Na5T8ZxSz6
— Dallas Police Depart (@DallasPD) July 8, 2016
The photo shows a smiling Hughes, walking with what appears to be a semi-automatic rifle slung across his shoulder.
That is perfectly legal in Texas. Hughes was not one of the shooters but just a person attending the protests. That he was legally armed should not have been a concern to anybody.
Somebody might say, “Well Jay, in the midst of all that was happening, it is reasonable that somebody might think he was dangerous.”
Actually, it isn’t reasonable at all. Unfortunately, we live in a culture where people have been taught not to fear guns in the way we fear our parents or God – with respect – but to be afraidof guns. Worse, to be irrationally afraid of them. More so when we see somebody carrying one.
Mark Hughes brother was interviewed about him and at one point is asked by a reporter why he took a gun to a peaceful protest and his answer was spot on. He said, “The same reason other people across the country bring their guns. Because it is his right.”
There needs to be a culture shift. The law and the constitution is on the side of gun owners. More states are going the “constitutional carry” route where people do not need to licensed to carry firearms and can do so concealed or openly. But people are still afraid and the automatic assumption is by too many, that a man (or woman) carrying a firearm is up to no good.
It’s a ridiculous assumption but it is a narrative that is given strength every day by left wing politicians, ignoramus actors and musicians, as well as charlatans like Michael Bloomberg and Shannon Watts who use lies and intimidation tactics (thanks to Bloomberg’s deep pockets) to further the narrative.
But there’s another reason it was easy for some to assume that since Mark Hughes was identified as a suspect because he was carrying a firearm: the underlying subtle racism of those in the anti-gun movement.
Shannon Watts, Michael Bloomberg and others in the chattering class who hate guns would have us all believe that nearly all gun owners are white men. It allows the mindset to take hold that a black man carrying a gun must be up to no good….because he’s black.
At the time of this writing, the Dallas Police Department still has the tweet up, identifying Hughes as a suspect. They should take it down. Since the police already questioned and released him, they know he isn’t a suspect.
In addition, all of those who are supporters of the second amendment should rally around Hughes, politics be damned. Why? Because as his brother said, he was doing what he did,because it is his right.
Somehow I knew, the first time I saw this guy as a supposed suspect, he had nothing to do with the shootings.
Yes, the cops should have already taken down any info. about him being a suspect, or Hughes should sue the pants off them.
The Uber Rich Want Us To Have A Racial Civil War.
https://vidrebel.wordpress.com/2016/07/08/from-11-11-2013-the-uber-rich-want-us-to-have-a-racial-civil-war/
They had every right to question him, he was released. Only an idiot would carry a rifle there for petes sake. What for anyway he never used it.
He has every right to carry that rifle anywhere in this country as you or I do
“Used it”?
Huh?
Only an idiot would ask that question!
“They had every right to question him,…”
You’re wrong, Tess.
Not only did they have no right to question him (for something that is completely legal), but the fact of the matter is they don’t even have the right to EXIST as pig departments in the first place.
The Elite feel the need to question any peasant with a weapon because the Elite are ultimately afraid of peasants with weapons. The Elite would prefer the questioning seasoned with a little torture just to remind the peasants their station in life is to serve the Elite.
“…a narrative that is given strength every day by left wing politicians, ignoramus actors and musicians, as well as charlatans like Michael Bloomberg…”
“…. the chattering class who hate guns would have us all believe that nearly all gun owners are white men…”
Jay Caruso (author) is right about the irrational reactions many Americans have to seeing a firearm, but he fails to make the connection to the TV set that drummed the nonsense into everyone’s heads, and is responsible for ALL cultural changes in our lifetimes.
I’ll bet it’s because he stares into the TV for several hours per day himself, and still has one foot in the world of deceit because of it.
It’s NOT the politicians, nor the celebrities or charlatans, because if these people he listed by name weren’t willing to push the agenda, the propagandists would simply find someone who WAS willing, and that’s the face of gun control you’d see on TV instead of the present one.
Look past the talking heads because they’re expendable, and look AT the Zionists who control the programming; that would be the TV programming that programs your mind.
“The photo shows a smiling Hughes, walking with what appears to be a semi-automatic rifle slung across his shoulder.”
Could just as easily be a duffle bag full of bananas.
“Mark Hughes brother was interviewed about him and at one point is asked by a reporter why he took a gun to a peaceful protest and his answer was spot on. He said, “The same reason other people across the country bring their guns. Because it is his right.”
He understands the meaning of “Shall not be infringed” PERIOD.