If we cannot defend ourselves, we are not free.
“A ‘woke’ Washington, DC, judge is facing backlash after he opted to cut loose an 18-year-old accused of firing more than two dozen rounds from an AR-15 into a car full of people,” the New York Post reported Tuesday. “Lloyd U. Nolan Jr., a judge on the Superior Court of the District of Columbia, last week ordered Amonte Moody to be released on house arrest ahead of his trial — despite acknowledging that the teen’s alleged actions could have killed someone.”
Online protests criticizing his decision and pointing out Nolan’s self-identifying as “woke,” along with his ties to Black Lives Matter and a George Soros-funded “criminal justice reform” organization, prompted Nolan to turn his Facebook page to “private,” presumably to shield himself from scathing comments.
It’s all consistent with a wider movement among Democrats and urban minorities to shift responsibility away from perpetrators and blame violent crime on guns. As AmmoLand observed last week in an article about New York State Senator Zellnor Myrie’s attempt to ban semi-automatics capable of being “converted” by adding devices (in other words, all semiautos), the emphasis is on mandating gun bans that only the “law-abiding” will obey. As for those who won’t?
By David Codrea
