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Related: About this forumNational Review Online Defends Intimidation By Heavily Armed "Open Carry Texas" Group
National Review Online writer Charles C.W. Cooke defended approximately 40 individuals who brought guns -- including assault weapons -- outside of a Dallas, Texas area restaurant to protest a meeting of four members of gun violence prevention group Moms Demand Action (MDA). While Cooke acknowledged that protestors "got close to 'intimidation'" in one of the three articles he authored on the incident, he also excused Open Carry Texas' (OCT) conduct in other articles by suggesting that MDA may have been "lying" about feeling intimidated.
The controversy occurred on November 9 when four members of a Texas chapter of MDA conducted a meeting at Blue Mesa Grill in Arlington, Texas. As the MDA members met, members of OCT began gathering in the parking lot to protest the meeting. In Texas, it is legal to openly carry a rifle so long as it is not displayed in a menacing way. The OCT protesters were largely comprised of men with military-style assault weapons.
MDA founder Shannon Watts told USA Today that the MDA members and other patrons of the restaurant were "terrified," and, "They felt like in an armed ambush and had no idea why it was taking place." According to a Forbes interview with a representative of Blue Mesa Grill, a manager called police who sent a squad car but also advised that OCT members were within their rights to openly display rifles in public. According to the representative, by the time police arrived, members of OCT began to move away from the restaurant, which may explain why an MDA member was unsuccessful in filing a police complaint against OCT on November 11.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/11/12/national-review-online-defends-intimidation-by/196856
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National Review Online Defends Intimidation By Heavily Armed "Open Carry Texas" Group (Original Post)
white cloud
Nov 2013
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TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)1. The OCT-SDB* looks like a classic bunch of inbreds.
*Small Dick Brigade.
white cloud
(2,567 posts)2. Yep Next thing you know
the public will demand legislation and protection from these wing nuts.
DhhD
(4,695 posts)3. After a shooter killed people in a Naval yard a few months ago, experts told the public
that if you hear gun shots get out quickly.
If the people inside the grill would have left quickly out the back door while calling the police, the business would have lost revenue. The Police Chief listens to business owners, not the public. Business owners can get this kind of thing stopped.
Now, next time there will be 60 of them. And there is a (stand your ground) shoot and ask questions later law, in Texas. Besides, how did they know where to go to stock these 4 ladies? The Arlington Police need to find out.
Paladin
(28,265 posts)4. So glad the guy in the red shirt can get all the AR-15's he wants.
Is this a great country, or what?
Gothmog
(145,330 posts)5. According to Juanita Jean, one of these idiots is running for Congress
http://www.juanitajean.com/2013/11/13/right-of-joe-barton-there-is-no-right-of-joe-barton-joe-barton-is-the-edge-of-right/
Joe Barton is the Texas congressvarmint who apologized to BP for our sand getting into their oil. He is also the guy who stopped research into into autism because he feared it would sow that pollution was the cause. No, seriously. He is that freekin evil. They call him Smokin Joe because he loves pollution. He makes the Tea Party look like bunch of liberals at a Karl Marx birthday celebration.
Okay, remember the group of wee winkie guys who protested the four women meeting for sense able gun control? Well, the agent agent provocateur of that group, Kory Watkins, has announced that he is going to run against Joe Barton in the GOP primary because Barton is not conservative enough.
white cloud
(2,567 posts)6. Even their Face Book site is getting hammered