Liberals Flip Out Over Gun Store's MLK Day Sale

Neurotic liberals have been triggered by a gun store’s promotion offering a discount to shoppers on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Monday’s federal holiday has been set aside in honor of the slain civil rights leader, and like with most other such days, it is an opportune time for retailers to take advantage of people who will be off work and out shopping.

One such retailer, Albuquerque’s Los Ranchos Gun Shop, is the target of leftist wrath despite having run a MLK sale for the past three years. It is a sign of changing times and hypersensitivity to all matters race-related in the post-Obama era.

Readers call gun store’s MLK Day sale newspaper ad ‘disturbing’ https://t.co/NGjkVcAurY #abq #albuquerque

— KRQE News 13 (@krqe) January 15, 2018

Via Albuquerque television station KQRE 13 News, “Readers call gun store’s MLK Day sale newspaper ad ‘disturbing’”:

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“Certainly, Martin Luther King Day for the past three years has been a tremendous sales day for us. People have the day off,” said gun shop owner Mark Abramson.

Mention the ad, and it’s an additional 5 percent off. However, many say they’re bothered by the sales tactic.

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“There’s irony and I haven’t seen any other businesses have a sale for Martin Luther King and it’s so ironic that it’s a gun shop,” said Hanz Herdia.

That irony, as some have pointed out on social media, is because of what Dr. King stood for: non-violence and peaceful protest. Not to mention, the civil rights leader was assassinated with a gun in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.

“I do think it’s in bad taste and I’m sure other people have used historical figures to sell things but it also helps to reflect their morals and it doesn’t in this case,” said Allen Marquez.

The store’s owner certainly didn’t run the ad out of the desire to alienate or offend people, but thanks to the cult of racial identity politics, taking offense has become the coin of the realm in a country which many seem to think should be called Obamastan.

An interesting and probably largely unknown tidbit of information is that MLK himself was a gun owner. He would have to have been insane to have not been one considering the incendiary political climate of the era in which he lived and the number of people who wanted him dead.

Why Readers Upset Over MLK Day Sale Ad Should Settle Down https://t.co/TQk0jKdNYu pic.twitter.com/fw8oKfWh5Z

— Bearing Arms (@BearingArmsCom) January 15, 2018

Pro-Second Amendment website Bearing Arms offers some important perspective in the article “Why Readers Upset Over MLK Day Sale Ad Should Settle Down”, quoting Abramson:

“I thought it was an appropriate depiction of Dr. King. We celebrate some of the freedoms we have because of the work he did,” Abramson said.

He believes the ad is consistent with Dr. King’s mission of equality.

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“Jim Crow laws and things that happened immediately after the civil war and continued for almost 100 years denied blacks, denied minorities the right to defend themselves while the majority could do that. Dr. King fought against that,” Abramson said.

Bearing Arms then seals the deal on the argument with the following:

That’s really the origin of gun control. The purpose of early gun control laws was to disarm blacks. This is especially true in the Deep South immediately following the Civil War, but was also true throughout the nation. While laws were written in such a way that they weren’t focused on ethnicity, that was only to sneak them by the carpetbaggers and others who would have shut down any attempt at simply disarming blacks.

Instead, they simply wrote laws that would, theoretically, apply to everyone, all while knowing that no white sheriff would arrest a white man for these “crimes.”

Eventually, they were applied to everyone, but in a world where statues are yanked down because of racism and anything with supposedly racist ties is denigrated, why is gun control still viable? If anything hurt blacks in rural communities, it was laws that inhibited their ability to defend themselves from racists.

Connecting Dr. King to a gun store sale? Makes perfect sense to me.

There you have it, liberals and race-baiters. It is silly to throw a temper tantrum on a day like this when Dr. King himself was an advocate of gun ownership, not to mention the history of how blacks were disarmed during the Jim Crow era.

And which party was it that backed slavery and ruled politically back in the Jim Crow days?