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kpete

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Fri Jan 11, 2013, 10:54 PM Jan 2013

They'll Arrest You For Breastfeeding, But Feel Free To Walk The Streets-ARMED TO THE TEETH [View all]



A pair of mouth-breathing morons strolled around the streets of Portland this week to “educate” the public about the 2nd Amendment.
http://www.kptv.com/story/20548025/men-armed-with-rifles-walk-through-portland-to-educate

Commenter Aimai over at Balloon Juice said the following:

The portland guys really piss me off, and freak me out. I think several schools went on lockdown? What are you supposed to think, ordinary citizen, when two young men walk by you armed to the teeth? You’d be crazy not to start running for the exits. Why is it that in half the country they would arrest you for breastfeeding in public but this kind of “disturbing the peace” and creating a nuisance/danger to the public is forcibly legal?


http://www.balloon-juice.com/2013/01/10/123369/#comment-4127537

Twenty-eight states, the District of Columbia and the Virgin Islands exempt breastfeeding from public indecency laws. (Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Illinois ..
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http://www.ncsl.org/issues-research/health/breastfeeding-state-laws.aspx
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