Self-defense Is the Most Basic Human Right

Everyone, particularly people living in high-crime areas, needs to know that they can defend themselves, and how to defend themselves. GOA Spreads the “2A is For All Message” from Detroit to Atlanta This Weekend

The gun-hating part of the Left always tries to paint the 2A crowd as racist. And while I am sure there are racists in any group of Americans, even the Democratic Party, Gun Owners of America is working to bring knowledge of the Second Amendment to Detroit and Atlanta this weekend.

For the 12th year in a row, GOA will be supporting the work of Michigan gun rights advocate and firearms instructor, Rick Ector, during his group’s annual women’s training event. Empowered 2A Michigan Coordinator, Katie Gardner, and Senior VP of GOA, Erich Pratt, will be in attendance.

Rick Ector, the founder of Legally Armed in Detroit, a gun safety advocacy group, will provide a free firearm shooting lesson at two southeast Michigan target ranges for 2000 women interested in learning more about firearms and personal protection. The total number of women trained over the 12-year program has exceeded 7,500. Check out our video highlighting our work at the event in 2022! [See the embedded video below.]

And I love this quote from Erich Pratt, Sr. VP of GOA.

We live in dangerous times. If there's anything that Uvalde, Texas sadly reinforced, is that you can't put off your duty to protect yourself to somebody else.

Rick Ector started the group Legally Armed in Detroit as a response to a tragedy 12 years ago. A young woman's body was found, and he wanted to do something to empower women to defend themselves.

And in Atlanta...

Further southeast, in the warmer temperatures of Atlanta, Georgia, the National African American Gun Association will be holding it’s very first conference for it’s members. The group serves as an advocacy and firearms training organization for black Americans, and GOA’s Director of Women’s Outreach, Antonia Okafor Cover, will be in attendance at the convention.

This is the GOA video First Time Self Defenders, which highlights the work that Rick Ector, the founder of Legally Armed in Detroit is doing. (The video is of highlights from the 2022 class.) Yes, the video is a bit of an advert for GOA, so what. It is important work that needs to be done. Is being done.

And since it came up, here's a picture of the most useless group of people in Texas, at the time of the shooting anyway. I hope some of them have been overcome with embarrassment and have left SWAT since they stood around with their thumbs up their butts while children died. They sure look spiffy though, don't they. They were about as useful as Barney Fife in a real emergency. Less useful; at least Barney always tried to do something, even if he screwed it up.