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On a YouTube clip that has gone viral, brash Texas handgun instructor Crockett Keller defiantly tells Muslims and non-Christian Arabs he won’t teach them how to handle a firearm.
State officials see the ad as possible discrimination, and may revoke Keller’s instructor license.
“If you are a socialist liberal and/or voted for the current campaigner-in-chief, please do not take this class,” Keller says in the ad’s closing seconds, also taking a swipe at President Barack Obama. “You’ve already proven that you cannot make a knowledgeable and prudent decision as required under the law. Also, if you are a non-Christian Arab or Muslim, I will not teach you this class. Once again, with no shame, I am Crockett Keller.”
Source: Paul J. Weber for the Associated Press via MSNBC.
I don't quite know what to make of this.
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Freedom of speech. Also, is there a law somewhere that insures a person the right to refuse service? I have nothing against Muslims, or anyone that voted for President Obama, that is their right. It should also be the right of Mr. Keller to choose who he instructs in his classes. As long as he is not infringing on anyone's rights.
ReplyDeletei'm kinda leaning your way...besides there are plenty of concealed carry instructors out there. if this guy doesn't want money from those groups then someone else surely does.
ReplyDeleteI always tought the best lesson I learned in the Marines was that I was a Marine and an American. I might have been born in Puerto Rico but above my ethnic background I was an American Marine.
ReplyDeleteOnce I started to see myself as an American I found that life is much easier. Now all I see in the civilian world is how people segregate themselves.
We try to celebrate things that separate us not those that bring us together. I am teaching my children that they are Americans when a teacher asks what are they I point out American. Takes a few seconds but they tend to get the hint.
If we all would start considering ourselves Americans this would be a non issue.
So true BlackCell, I'm just an all around white guy, nothing special about me other than I'm an American. My wife is a native Crow, and we've raised our sons to be Americans. Recently at school a fellow student was talking about his heritage and how he is a Filipino American. To me I'm with you, we are American's first, or at least should be, and our ethnic background is secondary. My two cents worth.
ReplyDeletewell i take a more practical view, so theres two difference concepts here, one is he is a firearms instructor, and another is he is licensed to provide some instruction codified by the state. Now it seems that he can and should be allowed to teach whoever he wants, and discriminate as he would like, but the state can and should remove his license, because if he is training people for that he is acting as an agent of the state, and an agent of the state should not discriminate, racial backgrounds are banned by the 14th amendment where it says "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.", also the constitution says:
ReplyDelete"The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States." -Article VI, paragraph 3.
Now this may not directly relate to this but to me the founders didnt want a religious test on people who were public servants, and by extending that rule public servants shouldnt put religious tests on the people they serve or in the case of the 14th amendment race test. So he can teach and discriminate all he wants, but not as an agent of the state.