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Judi Lynn

(160,076 posts)
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 04:53 PM Jun 2014

Open Carry Texas insists ‘we don’t see color’ after calling off march in black neighborhood

Source: Raw Story

Open Carry Texas insists ‘we don’t see color’ after calling off march in black neighborhood
By David Ferguson
Tuesday, June 24, 2014 15:03 EDT

The Houston chapter of the gun-rights group Open Carry Texas abruptly postponed a march it had planned for Sunday through the city’s Fifth Ward, a predominantly African-American neighborhood.

Talking Points Memo reported that the event organizer C.J. Grisham claimed to have a scheduling conflict on the day of the planned Fifth Ward march.

Prior to the cancelation, organizers had encouraged group members on Facebook to make the walk into “a big event,” in order to “show that gun rights belong to all.” The group said that it was going to conduct the walk-through of the heavily African-American neighborhoods in conjunction with a canned food drive for needy families.

Open Carry Texas has not yet announced when the rescheduled rally will take place.

On his blog, Houston open carry activist David Amad said that the group’s intention was never racist, that his group was baited into planning the march by anti-gun activists.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/24/open-carry-texas-insists-we-dont-see-color-after-calling-off-march-in-black-neighborhood/

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Dustlawyer

(10,489 posts)
3. I think they knew that if they went packing in the 5th Ward in Houston they would
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:08 PM
Jun 2014

never make it back alive! That would have been ugly!

Aristus

(65,985 posts)
5. "The anti-gun activists made us do it!"
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:15 PM
Jun 2014


What a bunch of losers...

I thought the whole point of owning and brandishing a gun was to assert that no one can make you do anything!

So after all that, the gun-crazies backed down from a bunch of people who don't have guns or violent intentions.

Sheesh! We really are better than them, aren't we?

Judi Lynn

(160,076 posts)
6. Apparently they want guns to compensate for their severely impaired brains.
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:19 PM
Jun 2014

"The anti-gun activists made us do it!" was spectacularly stupid. Beware the anti-gun activists!

mac56

(17,557 posts)
11. "I thought the whole point of owning and brandishing a gun was to assert..
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 06:54 PM
Jun 2014

that no one could make you do anything!"

You hit the nail right on the head.

billh58

(6,632 posts)
7. It appears to be true
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:21 PM
Jun 2014

that everything is bigger in Texas, including the level of insecurity and cowardice among their gun toters.

Paladin

(28,173 posts)
8. Notice how practically all the Open Carry fellas have beards?
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 05:21 PM
Jun 2014

Their female companions and relatives leave their underarms unshaven to show solidarity. Check it out, next time you see some pictures from their demonstrations.

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