Did NRA Board Member Tell the Truth About Murdered Gun Control Advocate?

By Robert Farago

Drawing attention to the fact that Reverend Clementa Pinckney – the pastor murdered in the Charleston church massacre [above] – was a gun control advocate is bound to anger his family, friends and like-minded colleagues. Suggesting that his crusade for gun control may have contributed to his death will no doubt be seen as adding insult to injury. But is it true? The first part of that statement certainly is . . .

 

In 2013, Pinckney, who was also a South Carolina State Senator, introduced legislation to require more comprehensive background checks on gun sales and supported several other gun safety measures during his career as a legislator.

That’s mediamatters.org‘s statement of fact (setting aside the use of the propagandistic term “gun safety”). Also a fact: South Carolina law prohibits concealed or open carry by lawful gun owners within a church or other place of worship – unless the church’s owners give members the right to do so. Which leads us to conjecture . . .

We don’t yet know if the A.M.E. church attacked this week allows members to carry a firearm on the premises. But judging from Reverend Pickney’s support for gun control and his position within …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns