Texas Gun Nuts Go After a Marine Vet on the Street on Memorial Day
Not content to have scared wheelchair-bound moms, gotten kicked out of Chipotle, Chili's and Sonic, and set the gun-rights cause back a century, the supreme gentlemen of the open-carry movement struck on another dumb tactic: Intimidate a veteran and chase him through the streets.
Once again, Mark Follman at Mother Jones has the video in which the Texas gun crew, which has fanned out across a Fort Worth broad traffic intersection, taunts a man who identifies himself as James, a Marine infantry veteran, and follows him a quarter-mile or so back to his car. You know, with their guns:
The men, members of the groups Open Carry Texas and Open Carry Tarrant County, asked him which news network he was with. When he said he wasn't, things began turning frosty. They pressed him about what he thought of their demonstration, and he replied with an unvarnished opinion that included profanities, language he told me he regrets having used.
"I'm all for responsible gun owners," he says. "What I was taught was not to wear it around like a gold chain. What they're doing is irresponsible. It intimidates the public, and people have just as much right to be comfortable in their public environment as these guys have a right to own their firearms."
Suddenly he was surrounded by about a half dozen armed men. They started badgering him with questions and accusing him of being anti-American. "I said, 'Are you kidding me? I served in the military.' They were trying to intimidate me, and when I didn't cower that upset them," he said. But he was starting to feel nervous and decided to disengage and walk away.
http://gawker.com/texas-gun-nuts-go-after-a-marine-vet-on-the-street-on-m-1583858968
Please proceed, gunhadists.
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