Anti-Second Amendment voices misrepresent 1960s Civil Rights movement

"What they're doing is no different than what we did in the Civil Rights Movement. You know, the students who sat at the lunch counters...Their fight today is no different. It's just the modern day Civil Rights Movement that they're engaged in."
- Lucia McBath, interviewed during MSNBC's promotional coverage of the 3/24 March For Our Lives rally, in Washington, DC.

McBath's son Jordan was in 2012 killed by a Florida shooter. And for that, she certainly merits our sympathy. But that tragedy in no way elevates her above legitimate criticism for now speaking foolishly on a matter that could impact all Americans.

The 1960s Civil Rights Movement pressed for governmental recognition of rights guaranteed to Americans by the Constitution. The recent March For Our Lives was its opposite. Its central argument was that government deny a Constitutional right to citizens.

McBath was not alone in misrepresenting popular political phenomena. Georgia Congressman John Lewis, a hail-worthy veteran of the historic push for racial civil rights, reportedly joined in Atlanta's anti-Second Amendment march. 

That contemporary forces strive for undue respect by leeching off of the 1960s movement to which they have no true philosophical bond apparently does not concern Lewis. Conclude what you will, then, about his current-day moral credibility.

Whether one owns a firearm is irrelevant. Constitutional rights are our birthright property.They are not mere privileges to be granted or withdrawn as suits familial interests, status-obsessive lawmakers, or hand-springing juveniles in whose tender grasp a little knowledge is indeed a very dangerous thing.