Blame the weed: Dana Loesch offers lame excuse for NRAs failure to defend Philando Castile

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The National Rifle Association has finally offered an explanation for its failure to respond to the controversial shooting death of Philando Castile last summer. NRA spokesperson Dana Loesch suggested on Twitter Thursday that the NRA said nothing about the shooting because Castile was “in possession of a controlled substance, which is illegal.”

Link to tweet

It was the first substantive response provided by a spokesperson for the gun-rights group.

Castile’s death caused an uproar in 2016 among Black Lives Matter and gun-rights activists alike. The 32-year-old Minnesotan had a license to carry and even informed the police officers who pulled over his vehicle that he had a firearm on him.

Despite the apparent infringement of Castile’s Second Amendment rights, however, the NRA stayed eerily quiet on the matter.
Jeronimo Yanez, the former police officer who shot Castile, told investigators after the killing that he smelled marijuana while approaching the vehicle. Yanez said that he feared for his life because if Castile had the “audacity” to smoke in front of his child, who was in the backseat, “what care does he give about me?”

Loesch’s tweet Thursday implied that Castile’s death was not worthy of a response from the NRA because he was in possession of marijuana. Yet in the state of Minnesota, the possession of marijuana is decriminalized. A person is guilty of a misdemeanor if the owner of a motor vehicle knowingly possesses more than 1.4 grams of marijuana “within the area of the vehicle.” Forensic photographs of the Oldsmobile driven by Castile showed that “a glass Mason jar with a plastic bag of marijuana in it” was in the car.

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/10/dana-loesch-nra-did-not-defend-philando-castile-because-he-had-marijuana-in-his-car/

[Warren DeMontague]

1. Yeah. "Freedom" means you can buy an AR-15 at Wal-Mart, right Dana?

Smoke a plant, go to prison.

[LenaBaby61]

2. Philando Castile's cause wasn't worth the NRA's time ...

Because he was an African-American.

That cow Loesch is a damn filthy, LYING, RACIST POS.

[ghostsinthemachine]

3. Non white punks on DOPE!

Dude was stoned maaaan, ripped out of his gourd maaaan, toking a blunt.

The same story, told a million times. Black people on dope. Dope.
I remember in my city the cops shooting an unarmed guy in the back 17 times. The inquiry found no fault with the officers because the guy might have been high on meth. The use dope all the time to shift blame, and get away with it. The especially use it on people of color. Especially.

[Hoyt]

4. Using Trump's logic on Putin expelling diplomats, NRA says thank you for one less Black

man. That's the real purpose behind the NRA and gun nuts who subscribe to NRA goals but are too cheap to pay dues.

[flotsam]

5. Until they show me

how to perform a drug test on a photo-whether "forensic" or not-this is hearsay and bullshit...

[JI7]

6. NRA is a white supremacist group