Lefty Law Prof. Un-ironically Calls For Investigation of NRA for ‘Profiting From Dead Children’

Frank believes that Conservatives are obsessed with the Second Amendment, while liberals are obsessed with the First Amendment. Okay, so maybe she has a point there, but her reasoning is bizarre and false when looking at the bigger picture.

“This constitutional extremism occurs on both ends of the political spectrum: in the Right’s obsessive focus on the Second Amendment and the Left’s equally obsessive focus on the First,” she asserted. “Though their targets are different, constitutional extremism on both the Right and Left is united in the privileging of the powerful”

Franks charges the Right with failing to protect the right to bear arms for the minority population, invoking the recent police shootings of armed black citizens.

“The Right’s passionate defenders of the right to bear arms are notably silent when black men bearing arms are stopped, harassed, and killed by police and when women use firearms to defend themselves against domestic violence,” Franks said. “Such selective and self-interested appropriation does not honor either the text or the spirit of the Constitution.”

She added that this selective interpretation of the Second Amendment is used to stifle debate on gun control legislation, something for which she has criticized gun advocates in the past.

Her disdain for the Second Amendment revolves strictly around the fact that she believes that Conservatives don’t protect the right of minorities to own guns. The problem with that idea is that they do. Her reasoning revolves around police officers shooting black men. The flaw is in the fact that many of the black individuals who get into confrontations with police don’t own the guns she thinks they have the right to carry. There’s that and the fact that you know what’s going to happen when you aim a gun at a police officer.

Source: campusreform.org