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They were gun rights activists proving they have a right to terrify people. Twitter critics went ballistic.
Men in balaclavas packing semi-automatic rifles and wearing camouflage, bulletproof vests and combat boots marched into the Kentucky Capitol in Frankfort on Friday, driving out terrified visitors.
The men were gun rights activists and members of the group We Are KY Gun Owners, staging a Second Amendment rally proving they have a right to appear to be a paramilitary operation in the open-carry state. They were allowed by security to step around the Capitols metal detectors.
We cant just whittle away one little piece here, one little piece there, Calen Studler told the Louisville Courier Journal, referring to gun rights. Then the [Constitution] doesnt mean what it says anymore.
Twitter critics, wondering how America would react if the men were Muslim, responded as expected:
Link to tweet
Good thing they're not terrorists
Black children and young men have been publicly executed without having any weapons at all.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)underpants
(182,866 posts)It can't be. It must be some sort of logo I don't know about.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)It returned results of a belt with a buckle identically like that, identifying it as Gucci. So I guess it is a fashion conscious gun nutter?
underpants
(182,866 posts)trueblue2007
(17,234 posts)magicarpet
(14,160 posts)... said the Fascist Guppy Fish.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)So I have this right? Their acronym is WAKY gun owners?
llmart
(15,550 posts)there's a sign on the door that I shouldn't wear sunglasses.
What the fuck kind of a country is this? Why did security let them through?
tavernier
(12,396 posts)But a machine gun and 5 thousands rounds of ammunition?
No problem.
mnmoderatedem
(3,728 posts)dumb asses
IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)XRubicon
(2,212 posts)and they probably are.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)underpants
(182,866 posts)Is that really Gucci?
XRubicon
(2,212 posts)underpants
(182,866 posts)underpants
(182,866 posts)My wife caught this. All that gear including the guns is brand spanking new.
IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)They probably are Russians. Moscow Mitch calling in favors?
G_j
(40,367 posts)This is terrifying. Also, fun fact: Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, II and the #PoorPeoplesCampaign were barred from entering the Kentucky Capitol. Evidently, you can walk in to sow fear and threaten violence, but not to pray and call for justice. -Benjamin Perry
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)maxsolomon
(33,367 posts)nyah nyah nyah.
that's the essential argument. I get to do this because.
DBoon
(22,395 posts)and cause them to lose their jobs
mucifer
(23,559 posts)MineralMan
(146,324 posts)Guaranteed.
shockey80
(4,379 posts)Just think, these out of their fucking minds extremists are calling us evil far left socialists. These are, I am a tough guy, look how cool I am. Look how tough I am. Look, I am a true American. They are children that never grew up.
This is Kentucky? Who is giving these children such an insane platform?
Nature Man
(869 posts)?
ooky
(8,926 posts)thanks to this moron market.
Takket
(21,611 posts)now, for the next experiment, let's have a black male in a hoodie walk through the same security checkpoint with a Gillette razor in his pocket and see what happens (Note: please don't attempt this, you will be killed).
so........... why is there a metal detector if people with guns can just walk around it?
Bayard
(22,128 posts)Article doesn't say what area of the state they're from, but I'll guarantee you it wasn't Frankfort.
I think every state has pockets of these idiots (I lived among some in eastern Calif.) Most don't storm the damn capital though! I just can't believe security let them through.
I am embarrassed for my state, because these people got the publicity they were looking for with this stunt.
Squinch
(50,991 posts)any doubt in any of our minds that those guys have tiny little pencil stub dicks?
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Eom.
underpants
(182,866 posts)Between the March last weekend and the 4 people who came into town in their turnip truck to protest at the Lee monument, Richmond has gotten it spot on right both times. The "Richmond model" should become the standard.
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)Afraid they might lose their jobs if they have a job.
zackymilly
(2,375 posts)Crunchy Frog
(26,611 posts)empedocles
(15,751 posts)RT Atlanta
(2,517 posts)That's what I encourage anyone to do when they see that.
What if a similar number of our brown-skinned brothers and sisters showed up to the capitol dressed that way to rally for their 'gun rights?' There'd be a goddamned SWAT team on standby looking to escalate.
Kaleva
(36,327 posts)DBoon
(22,395 posts)This is a white privilege demonstration
littlemissmartypants
(22,725 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Certain citizens could show up brandishing loaded guns and be let in around the metal detector. But you better not show up with an umbrella or walking stick. It is the ass-backwardness of laws in that state.
I can promise you that if that group had been all Black men with dredlocks (hell, clean cut Black men in suits) trying to walk in visibly strapped, waves and waves of cops would have been all over them with guns drawn.
slater71
(1,153 posts)How many of these idiots have ever served in a war zone? Show you faces you bunch of punks.
malaise
(269,157 posts)in morgues today
0rganism
(23,962 posts)countering this intimidation will take more than a positive attitude about democracy
IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)it's because America was made great again.
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)But you got to remember though not all people with guns strapped to them like that have evil intent. There are pro 2nd amendment groups that are pro LGBT and anti Trump
0rganism
(23,962 posts)hoping there's a way to tell the liberal gun toters from the neo-nazis and the wee-peen brandishers. generally, they all look like people armed with deadly weapons. let's hope Democratic voters can overcome fears of death and debilitation to exercise our most fundamental rights.
Buckeyeblue
(5,500 posts)Local law enforcement should have desinded on the scene and neutralized the subjects of aggression.
IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)about superheroes fighting off white supremacists
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)you want to, at any time you want.
Just like it doesn't say you can have a grenade launcher or a nuclear b**b.
Why don't you try fucking READING IT before you talk about 'what it means' ... or doesn't?
I cannot BELIEVE they let these a-holes through security.
Only reason I can imagine it is if they proved all that shit is just plastic. Still shouldn't have, but I guess technically ...
IronLionZion
(45,506 posts)which many constitutional scholars claim the founders intended to be our National Guard and Reserves, not a bunch of undisciplined dumbasses.
lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)If dumbasses like these clowns can wander around the halls of public
buildings with no business there everyone else has cause to worry.
Did security even check if the magazines were loaded? I doubt it.
Quixote1818
(28,958 posts)struggle4progress
(118,325 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)Or are they trying to channel the assholes from Die Hard 2?