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In reply to the discussion: Open Carry Texas members frighten restaurant employees – who hid in a locked freezer [View all]ShadowLiberal
(2,237 posts)What's most ironic about all the gun nuts demanding the right to parade guns is who was parading guns half a century ago.
The group parading guns around the most was the black panthers back then, who openly used it as an intimidation tactic, showing up at places, or near events hosted by political figures parading their guns and looking threatening.
In California people got so sick of their bullying and intimidating tactics that they passed a law to ban the practice of openly carrying guns around. The governor who supported and signed the bill was conservative saint, Ronald Reagan.
When the bill was working it's way through California's state legislature and Reagan said he'd support it, the black panthers responded by trying to intimidate Reagan into backing down by showing up with their guns at all his public events.
And most ironic, because of racism of the Bundy people today, and the fact that the black panthers are a hate group, I bet a large number of them would support restricting the rights of gun owners to publicly parade their guns if the black panthers started to do the same thing again today.