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Unusual Allies in a Legal Battle Over Texas Drivers’ Gun Rights
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/us/politics/05guns.html
A partial quote:
I think this is great.
With the recent successes for the pro-gun rights position -- Parker, shall-issue CCW in many states, etc. -- perhaps this cooperation between the ACLU and gun-rights activists can continue. I always thought it odd that liberals are pro-civil-liberties in every way except the RKBA. After all, the 2nd amendment is a civil liberty.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/05/us/politics/05guns.html
A partial quote:
Will Harrell, the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Texas, said that even before the current dispute, his group and the N.R.A. had been collaborating on racial profiling issues, particularly on what he called a “Bubba profile” that made certain white men the focus of gun checks by the police.
Consequently, Mr. Harrell said, the A.C.L.U. of Texas, the Texas State Rifle Association and the Criminal Justice Coalition filed public information requests with more than 300 district and county attorneys for any advisories on the vehicle handgun law given to local law enforcement officers. Many did not respond or said they had no guidelines, but 13 acknowledged instructions to continue arresting drivers with unlicensed guns or to take their weapons.
Mr. Harrell said the collaboration with the Texas State Rifle Association came easy. “I find working with strange bedfellows more comfortable than with those we most often agree with,” he said. And, he said, “the police don’t know what to think of it.”
Alice Tripp, the legislative director for the rifle association, conceded that the groups had been seen as an odd couple. “Everybody kind of went, ‘Oh my God, what’s the A.C.L.U. doing here with the gun people?’ ” Ms. Tripp said. But she said they had found common ground on self-defense as an endangered liberty.
I think this is great.
With the recent successes for the pro-gun rights position -- Parker, shall-issue CCW in many states, etc. -- perhaps this cooperation between the ACLU and gun-rights activists can continue. I always thought it odd that liberals are pro-civil-liberties in every way except the RKBA. After all, the 2nd amendment is a civil liberty.