"On its face, the Castile case would seem to have all the trappings of a cause célèbre for the NRA. The group's most fiercely held belief is supposed to be that law-abiding citizens shouldn't be burdened - let alone killed in cold blood - by repressive agents of the government just because they want to protect themselves and exercise their Second Amendment rights. Castile should be a martyr for the NRA while Yanez - who reached for the holster of his service weapon as soon as Castile mentioned he was armed - should be its boogeyman.

Philando Castile received his permit to carry a firearm from the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office on June 4, 2015. A year later, Castile had a gun in his pocket when a Minnesota police officer named Jeronimo Yanez pulled him over and shot him dead. According to dashcam footage, Yanez decided to open fire after Castile told him, truthfully and calmly, that he had a gun on him."

The NRA has chosen to stay on the sidelines of a case that should, by all rights, be the perfect example of everything their movement exists to oppose. "

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"The truth is incontrovertible.
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ignorance may deride it,
but in the end,
there it is." -Sir Winston Churchill