"Take Back the Night" and Firearms

[Bob's Grandson]

Folks:

Does anyone know what the official position of the "Take Back the Night" folks is in regards to the RKBA, CCWs, or armed self-defense in general? Their website is uninformative. If no one knows, I'll drop the Take Back the Night folks a note and find out.

Wayne

 

[ZeSpectre]

Okay, right off the bat let me say that I respect what TBTN believes it's trying to accomplish.

HOWEVER

So far what I've seen in person is a lot of hippie, hug the world, if we stand around in a group we can get something done, type of behavior. You know, defeat evil by having a hug and a group song.

You can guess where that puts their view on RKBA.

Sorry if I sound terribly cynical but marching 200 people down a street for one night has NO long term effect on crime in an area.

 

[obxned]

This is a pretty useless event - people stand around outdoors on one night in large enough groups to cause most of the BGs to either take a night off or do business elsewhere. However, on the other 364 nights......

 

[cracked butt]

So far what I've seen in person is a lot of hippie, hug the world, if we stand around in a group we can get something done, type of behavior. You know, defeat evil by having a hug and a group song.

I don't know if its changed since I went to college 15 years ago, but the 'group think' tended to follow the raging radical feminist track and the marches turned into male bashing fests.

 

[Zundfolge]

All the TBTN people I've known want all men disarmed completely (if you know what I mean ... I guess they figure we can use artificial insemination to continue the species).

I seem to recall that TBTN lobbied Lautenberg and then praised him after the Lautenberg Amendment passed. (did a quick google for news stories about this but came up empty, so take if as a rumor, not fact)

 

[gezzer]

Left wing radicals all. One of the authors of the starter book lived in a tenement 3 Decker under my wife’s family. She was a true leftist hippy who even forgave the (ethnic) killer who stabbed her son to death for his jacket.

IMHO they are liberal pieces of crap, not really interested in self-defense.