Civil Rights and the Second Amendment

Civil Rights and the Second Amendment
Thousands of gun rights advocates attend a rally organized by The Virginia Citizens Defense League on Capitol Square near the state capital building in Richmond, Va., on Jan. 20, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Jeremy Stalnecker
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This week each year we as a nation stop to celebrate the birth of the 20th century civil rights icon, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King was a man who understood that in the United States equality, and more importantly freedom, was not reserved for a particular group of people who just happened to have the right color skin. He understood that when the Declaration of Independence spoke of “unalienable Rights” given by our Creator, that those rights could not justly be taken away by human government.

Jeremy Stalnecker
Jeremy Stalnecker
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Jeremy Stalnecker is the executive director of the Mighty Oaks Foundation.
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