Barnicle Bemoaned Police Militarization, Now Calling for National Guard?

‘If shootings, multiple shootings that occur every weekend in cities like Chicago, New York, Boston, if it ever occurred in a largely white neighborhood, the National Guard would be in the streets’

Barnicle Bemoaned Police Militarization, Now Calling for National Guard? (NewsBusters)

What does it say about Mike Barnicle that, in a discussion of the surge in inner-city homicide, Al Sharpton sounded a lot more reasonable than the former Boston Globe columnist?

On today's Morning Joe, Sharpton almost echoed the NRA's famous "guns don't kill people, people kill people."  Said Sharpton: "people, because guns are there don't make you get up and shoot."  But there was the blathering Barnicle--who during the Ferguson debate had bemoaned the militarization of police--seeming to condemn the absence of the National Guard in the inner cities.

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