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Beto O'Rourke ✔@BetoORourke
Wake the fuck up America!
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Gun rights activists carrying semi-automatic firearms walk through the Capitol Building on January 31, 2020 in Frankfort, Kentucky. 📷: @woolstonphoto
4:24 PM - Feb 1, 2020
Texas, and America, need a Senator O'Rourke.
Aussie105
(5,420 posts)When the second amendment was first interpreted wrongly, and allowed scenes like the above.
The appearance of such masked and gunned up individuals in a public place anywhere else in the world would bring out special armed police forces within minutes.
The stupid show of stupid force by stupid people was meant to intimidate.
Beto is right. But quite a few years too late.
Only in America!
Beto, we know what the problem is. Now go find someone to do something about it!
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)is the truth
NCLefty
(3,678 posts)If you can't give up something that's harming you or others, your ass is addicted to it.
Ohiogal
(32,045 posts)They should have all been immediately arrested for bringing loaded weapons inside a state capitol building! What a bunch of effing idiots! Where are Kentuckys capitol police?
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)KPN
(15,649 posts)Bettie
(16,120 posts)Seriously stupid.
CanonRay
(14,112 posts)TexasTowelie
(112,369 posts)since the deadline for filing has passed. Texas also will not elect a senator in 2022. However, it's great to see Beto condemn this stunt.
Right-wing Twitter would have exploded with condemnations if the group of activists were from a Muslim group or the Black Panthers.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,109 posts)would the same "freedom" be allowed? I think we all know the fucking answer to that.
This kind of SHIT makes me so fucking ANGRY. This is just so GD'd wrong.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,590 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)In order to voice their opposition to the bill and raise awareness of the brutality that African Americans faced at the hands of law enforcement, the BPP decided to travel to the state capitol in Sacramento. The family of Denzil Dowell, an unarmed black man who was shot and killed by a California police officer, had approached the BPP for aid earlier that month. In response, the BPP met with the county district attorney and appealed to the sheriffs department for further investigation into the shooting. Having exhausted the appropriate legal channels with no success, the BPP decided to use the trip to Sacramento to publicize the issue. The threat posed by the Mulford Act resonated even more within the context of the Dowell shooting. Members of the BPP traveled to the capitol on May 2, 1967, and boldly entered the building armed (Figure 1). Seale delivered a passionate executive mandate to legislators and the media, declaring that the time has come for Black people to arm themselves against this terror before it is too late and that the pending Mulford Act brings the hour of doom one step nearer.7
Seales statement highlighted the importance of self-defense in the lives of African Americans and underlined the fact that the Mulford Act did not only pose a threat to the BPP but entire communities. The demonstration in Sacramento was legal, but upon departure, BPP members failed to remove the ammunition from their firearms, violating an obscure fish and game code.8 This mistake furnished an opportunity for authorities to arrest twenty-four members of the group. Even before the Mulford Act had taken effect, the authorities pursued legislation as a means to suppress BPP activities.
[link:https://www.explorationsinteractive.com/picking-up-the-gun-the-black-panther-party-and-the-mulford-act.html|
Straw Man
(6,625 posts)https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun-control-nra-support-mulford-act
It continues to this day.
bdamomma
(63,918 posts)Make America Gr.....White again
salin
(48,955 posts)You can't ditch your job in the middle of the day. You don't make enough money to "opt out." So you have to pray for the best amidst a show of a potential armed takeover of the capitol (because isn't that what this is - a threat - we could/can take this over by armed force?) Will the next public lands takeover/standoff be in a red state capitol building? Two weeks ago, this fleeting thought wouldn't have entered my head, let alone would I type/speak the thought out loud.
Nay
(12,051 posts)Just chew on that for a minute.
salin
(48,955 posts)This is seriously f-ed up. And the employees at the capitol have no power to stop it. But they are at their job - and can't avoid the capitol during this display, and threat of violence.
Nay
(12,051 posts)least without getting all shot to death.
Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)Apparently not in Kentucky.
Fla_Democrat
(2,547 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)When exactly did gun ownership demand the full-on jihadi cosplay treatment?
Not a good look. At all.
musicblind
(4,484 posts)But hasn't the filing deadline passed ?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,209 posts)It was much easier for him to run against asshole Cruz.
musicblind
(4,484 posts)His public profile has been raised since he ran against Cruz.
nini
(16,672 posts)???
moondust
(20,002 posts)and an assault rifle is liable to get ideas.
Shouldn't the laws (or lack thereof) that apply to the KY Capitol also apply to the U.S. Capitol?
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)phleshdef
(11,936 posts)What an asinine response.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Maybe he should have sent thoughts and prayers.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)rather than discuss. Truly the mark of an insightful and perceptive mind.
You sure showed 'em...
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)Oh my, the irony.
Igel
(35,337 posts)I want the fuck up to continue to sleep--or, even better, go to sleep. When you wake a fuck up, all you get is more up-fucking.
MagickMuffin
(15,950 posts)should be fired.
What if they had gone on a shooting spree?
Would the person who let them roam the halls of the capitol be charged with anything that happened?
They look russian to me. Perhaps these are McConnell's new hired body guards from his besty Oleg Deripaska.
bdamomma
(63,918 posts)Moscow Mitch's Taliban.
SuprstitionAintthWay
(386 posts)Automatic Kalashnikov Rifle Model 1947.
An object of worship and fetishizing for a lot of inferiority-plagued male dipshits worldwide.
Straw Man
(6,625 posts)should be fired.
What if they had gone on a shooting spree?
If their purpose were to go on a shooting spree, what makes you think they would've stopped for a pass?
If open carry is legal in Kentucky, then the guards did the right thing. Let them come through and do their silly little march, and then be on their way. Teapot, meet tempest. Done.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Decked out with assault weapons and loudly speaking Farsi.
Would they have been shot by security as they entered the courthouse?
Let's not pretend that the 2nd Amendment and the 14th Amendment intersect anywhere except White Man USA.
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Paladin
(28,271 posts)Where will our deliverance come from? What's it going to take?
triron
(22,011 posts)Skittles
(153,179 posts)seriously
live love laugh
(13,124 posts)Skittles
(153,179 posts)it is disconcerting
live love laugh
(13,124 posts)had. It seems disadvantageous to require declarations almost two years in advance guaranteeing all $$$ will be spent by election time. I dont know who makes these rules but I think future candidates ought to consider breaking themlike Bloomberg and other latecomers.
betsuni
(25,598 posts)like the Ukraine. What a shock to see Kentucky on the screen. Horrible.
Polybius
(15,467 posts)Even on live TV with his concession speech against Cruz.
phleshdef
(11,936 posts)Harmless words. Get over it.
Polybius
(15,467 posts)For politicians and especially Texas, no.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Guess hes hoping for another reaction.
Maybe hes afraid hes being forgotten.
tblue37
(65,483 posts)if they were dressed like those guys are, you'd have no way of knowing they intended to kill people rather than just prancing around showing off their guns.
bdjhawk
(420 posts)Micro-penises.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)Dukkha
(7,341 posts)I can still see you!
Seriously grow the hell up and get a job!
crickets
(25,982 posts)aikoaiko
(34,183 posts)... and no one was injured or killed.