Former Sheriff Richard Mack, founder of the Constitutional Sheriffs and argued this week that gun owners are facing oppression like Rosa Parks faced before becoming a civil rights icon.
Mack, who has promoted his organization to groups like the Oath Keepers, made the remarks on Monday while speaking to podcaster and convicted criminal Steve Bannon.
During the interview, Mack complained that hate group watchers had painted his organization as a militia of white supremacists.
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"I'm not a racist," he insisted. "I find racism and white supremacy completely abhorrent, completely antithetical to the American dream and the American way."
"We are a peaceful and effective process for restoring civil rights to America. Whatever happened to the civil rights movement?" he asked. "We do, and we absolutely quote Martin Luther King in our presentation, we tell the story of Rosa Parks."
Mack then compared various groups, including gun owners, to Parks.
"I want to ask every sheriff and peace officer, if you were called back to Montgomery, Alabama, December 1st, 1955, would you have arrested Rosa Parks?" he said. "Well, then, why are you doing it today to Christians and to parents who want to be involved in their school boards?"
"Why do you do it to the Amish farmers who won't pasteurize their milk?" he continued. "Why are we going after innocent people?
"Why are we going after gun owners who are law-abiding citizens, but yet we still try to make them criminals?"
Mack also said that every sheriff in the country should be investigating President Joe Biden's 2020 win and "also the crimes committed by the FBI and other federal agents."