‘We want our rights and we want to keep our rights’ says gun owner (VIDEO)
By Chris Eger
Mark Robinson, a self-professed life-long resident of Greensboro, North Carolina weighed in this week at a City Council meeting on gun control.
City leaders have invited citizens to speak on the subject of the upcoming Greensboro Gun and Knife Show, which some in the community want to halt as Greensboro Mayor Nancy Vaughan, a Democrat, has railed against access to “military-style assault weapons.”
Robinson was one of a dozen speakers to address the Council, and though he apologized for the lack of polish and preparation on his remarks beforehand, delivered a succinct and at times stirring monologue:
I’ve heard a whole lot of people in here talking tonight about this group and that group, domestic violence, black, these minorities and that minority.
What I want to know is when are you all gonna start standin’ up for the majority? And here’s who the majority is. I’m the majority. I’m a law abidin’ citizen who’s never shot anybody, never committed a serious crime, never committed a felony. I’ve never done anything like that but it seems like every time we have one of these shootings nobody wants to put the blame where it goes which is at the shooter’s feet. You want to put it
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