While looking into liberal hypocrisy with respect to Second Amendment rights, it occurred to me that I had not heard anything at all from the American Civil Liberties Union pertaining to their stance on proposed gun control legislation. I decided to look over the national group’s web site: aclu.org. I was amazed at the number of activities by the organization pertaining to a wide variety of issues as gay & lesbian rights, the rights of prisoners (both in the US and on foreign soil), the rights of immigrants, racial justice, reproductive rights, and women’s rights, among others. But, surprisingly, nowhere on their site was I able to find a single word about the rights of gun owners.
Given that the media have been rife with stories about the Obama administration’s efforts to impinge upon the rights of gun owners, one would think that the ACLU’s web site would give the subject at least some sort of mention. However, on their web site’s page “This Week in Civil Liberties (1/11/2013)”, there is not a single word about guns, gun owners, or the Second Amendment.
There is one article on their web site commemorating the tenth anniversary of the prison camp at Guantanamo. Of course, when allegations surfaced in 2003 over prisoner abuse at the prison in Cuba, the ACLU was all over it. Apparently, the ACLU is more concerned with the rights of non-citizen potential terrorists being housed in a foreign country than they are about the Constitutional rights of law-abiding American citizens living within the borders of the United States.
We have seen the ACLU take legal action on behalf of atheists who find themselves offended by the display of religious symbols on public property (i.e., the Veterans’ Cross in the Mojave Desert). But is it not odd that the ACLU’s web site does not even mention the government’s attempts to trample upon the Constitutional rights of America’s gun owners? It seems that the organization likes to pick and choose issues that IT deems important, especially if these issues appeal to its liberal base. But, in the case of the Second Amendment, a blatant assault on the rights of firearms enthusiasts does not even merit cursory mention.
I e-mailed my home state’s (Florida) chapter and asked them to comment. I have furthermore encouraged all of my conservative friends, relatives, and business associates to do the same. The gun control issue is providing conservatives and gun owners the perfect opportunity to expose the ACLU for what it is – a group of left-wing hacks with little real interest in protecting the rights of ALL Americans.
In other words, liberal hypocrites.
