The police have been shooting tear gas at protesters and terrorizing citizens of Ferguson, isn't this what the NRA has told us to arm ourselves against. Then where is their outrage?

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

The National Rifle Association has been warning us about the threat of a heavily-armed and dangerous government crushing dissent for decades. Their leader, Wayne LaPierre, even referred to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms as "jack-booted thugs." 

Their dystopian nightmare sounds exactly like what’s happening in Ferguson, Missouri. 

Yet somehow, the NRA seems to have missed the whole thing with the SWAT teams and the tank-like vehicles and the snipers and the LRAD sound cannon and the tear gas and the rubber bullets being trained on unarmed Americans. Not a peep from LaPierre on this extended assault on citizens of Ferguson, at least that I can find. 

If I were suspicious of their motives--and I am--I might point out that when I visited their 9 acres of militarized gun-fun also known as their convention in Indianapolis, I saw fewer black faces than in your average episode of The Dukes of Hazzard. I'd also point out that LaPierre blows just about every tune he knows on his dog whistle, when warning his membership of the horrors confronting them during this period when violent crime has fallen to its lowest level in a generation: 

"We don't trust government, because government itself has proven unworthy of our trust. We trust ourselves and we trust what we know in our hearts to be right. We trust our freedom. In this uncertain world, surrounded by lies and corruption everywhere you look, there is no greater freedom than the right to survive and protect our families with all the rifles, shotguns, and handguns we want. We know in the world that surrounds us there are terrorists and there are home invaders, drug cartels, carjackers, knockout gamers, and rapers, and haters, and campus killers, airport killers, shopping mall killers and killers who scheme to destroy our country with massive storms of violence against our power grids or vicious waves of chemicals or disease that could collapse our society that sustains us all."

Besides making you wonder who spiked his drink with goofballs, what jumps out about that friendly little harangue? Who do you think LaPierre's speech is meant for when he mentions "terrorists" and "drug cartels" and "carjackers" and "knockout gamers?" 

Valid point.

When the protestors at the Bundy Ranch  were pointing semi-automatic weapons at federal agents and threatening them with violence, the NRA, and just about every conservative in the country, were rushing to stand with them and heralded the importance of the 2nd Amendment in keeping us safe from government overreach.

But the people of Ferguson have just had one of their own gunned down in the streets, have been subjected to tear gas, and now have the National Guard patrolling their streets, and the NRA says nothing?

You know if I were a cynic, I might just think that the NRA believes the 2nd Amendment only applies to people with the right color skin.

You know, if I were a cynic.

P.S. By the way I in NO way think that encouraging the people of Ferguson to take up arms against the police is a good idea, which of course is the same way I felt about the Bundy Ranch standoff.

All I am doing is pointing out the hypocrisy of an organization that on the one hand seems intent on instigating a shootout with law enforcement when the antagonists are white, but clams up when the antagonists are not quite so white.