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...Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and the music industry are being increasingly vigilant about violations,” Steen said. “They also have been much more serious about various things—they have filed suit against some individuals...
...while the measures the NAACP suit aims to bring about—tighter regulations on the sale and distribution of guns—are admirable, the organization’s rationale for this suit is badly misguided...
...protect everyone, not any specific minority. Gun advocates comparing the suit’s tactics to those of the Ku Klux Klan are clearly off base, but the NAACP has opened itself to such criticism by conflating the issues of gun control and race. By putting forth its suit on these terms, the NAACP has distracted from the real issues surrounding gun control, and that is indeed regrettable...
...just gun control that the suit has muddled and obscured; the NAACP’s suit has also, paradoxically, distracted from the very real issue of violence in minority communities. Many of the problems cited by the NAACP relate to the shamefully slow ambulance and police response times in low-income, minority communities; the statistics to which they point should be a spur for increased government funding to these communities, so that these problems can be effectively addressed...
...this lawsuit is not the way. The NAACP has drawn attention to important issues that must be addressed, but it has helped neither of the causes for which it hopes to advocate with this mix-and-match suit...