[quote][url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-open-carry-texas-harassment-marine-veteran]On Memorial Day this week, a former Marine in Texas named James got a couple calls from friends who'd spotted an unusual gathering in downtown Fort Worth: Roughly a dozen people, mostly men, were hanging out in the middle of the city's cultural district, armed with semi-automatic rifles. James quickly knew what his friends were describing, having recently encountered an open-carry demonstration himself in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. An independent TV commercial producer who sometimes films live events, James headed downtown with his camera to get some footage.
What he saw there struck him as especially provocative. Not only had the open-carry activists come to a typically relaxed, family friendly part of town, they were displaying intimidating firearms just three days after a major gun massacre in Southern California. What he didn't anticipate was that they would soon be pursuing him for several city blocks with cameras of their own, harassing him and later posting the footage online, where they would also level homophobic slurs and violent threats against him.
Women who speak out have been the primary target for gun activists, as I detailed in a recent investigation. But now, on a day meant to honor fallen service members, a military vet would make the hit list.[/url][/quote]
Read the rest of the story in the link.
tl;dr: Marine gets insulted by gun owners for not sharing their views.
Opinions on this?
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>Bloomberg topkek. i'm not believing their shit because they claimed last time that they were threatened by open carry activists when they weren't really, with doctored photos from the side profile instead of the real ones from the front profile showing the people peacefully posing with a sign in the middle. in short, mother jones is a bloomberg shill(quite literally, since he owns mother jones), so is maig and VPC and Brady. they're all NYC mayor's shills run off of NYC government servers instead of private servers. it's all the agenda of a rich ass corrupt 27 billionaire mufugga who outspends the NRA every year and gets beat the f** out because the people don't want it.
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Edited by Flee: 5/31/2014 9:44:14 PMDude shouldn't have started off by swearing, but those people are morons of the worst kind. "let's follow this guy around and get uncomfortably close to him, waving guns and cameras around while making remarks like 'you look like you're about to cry boy'. That will DEFINITELY get the message across that we're not here to bully and intimidate people, and it won't make us look like the confrontational retards that we are!" -blam!-ing idiots.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again a thousand times: [u][b][i]Open carry is fücking retarded.[/i][/b][/u] It is [i]only[/i] used for intimidation. It makes responsible gun owners look bad, it scares regular people, and it fuels the anti-gun agenda. If you honestly want to be safe and show other people how responsible gun owners can be, [i][b]DON'T WAVE YOUR GUN IN THEIR GODDAMN FACE[/b][/i]
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Lol Marines Lol POGS
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Edited by RatTailMoshPit: 5/31/2014 5:03:16 PMSounds like he went there to harass them and got what he had coming. Lol what are intimidating firearms? Aren't all firearms intimidating? Who cares the gun group gathered 3 days after a shooting hundreds of miles away? It was prolly planned weeks in advance and they were minding their own business till this guy showed up. I forgot, they got guns they must be crazy killers! Save the chillins!
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That's horrible. Not surprising though, feel sorry for the veteran.
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Meh, from the video the marine looks like a self-righteous douchebag who thinks that serving in the military somehow makes him superior. Maybe it was a bit insensitive to have a pro-gun gathering in public just a few days after a massacre, but the activists were polite and this guy just had to crash the party and start ranting his anti-gun views.
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There are jerks and idiots on either side of the argument.
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God dammit people
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inb4peopledefendingtherednecks
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Gun toting rednecks are assholes, but the vet walked right into it by even starting with them.
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*shrugs* There's idiots like this on either side.
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Sounds an awful lot like the gun lobby.