I sadly learned of the death today of Otis McDonald.\u00a0 He passed at 79 after a valiant battle against cancer. It was the first long battle he didn\u2019t <\/i>win.<\/p>\n
As a black man in America, he fought his way up from economic disadvantage to earning a good living for his family.\u00a0 He fought against violent crime in his adopted city of Chicago, and in so doing came to his most famous battle as the lead named plaintiff in McDonald, et. al. v. City of Chicago. <\/i>In the plaintiffs\u2019 landmark victory in that case in 2010, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that neither the Windy City nor any other city could ban law-abiding citizens from owning handguns for defense of self and family.\u00a0 The McDonald <\/i>decision helped pave the way for the concealed carry permits now being issued throughout Illinois.<\/p>\n
You can listen to my interview with Otis McDonald<\/a> and co-plaintiffs Colleen Lawson<\/a>, David Lawson, and Adam Orloff<\/a>.\u00a0 Not long before his death, Colleen and David and I were able to gather some students to create a video postcard of thanks and well-wishes to Otis.<\/p>\n He was a fighter for civil rights and human rights in every respect, and Otis McDonald will never be forgotten.<\/p>\n Godspeed, brother.<\/p>\n Edited 4\/8\/14 to add: Brother Dave Workman at Second Amendment Foundation, which sponsored Otis’ historic lawsuit, has announced services this coming Friday for Mr. McDonald. \u00a0Wish I could make it; hope all in the Chicagoland area can. \u00a0Info — and important commentary — can be found here:\u00a0http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/services-set-friday-for-gun-rights-hero-as-holder-pushes-more-control<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I sadly learned of the death today of Otis McDonald.\u00a0 He passed at 79 after a valiant battle against cancer. It was the first long battle he didn\u2019t win. As a black man in America, he fought his way up from economic disadvantage to earning a good living for his family.\u00a0 He fought against violent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights","8":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}