[quote][url=http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-open-carry-texas-harassment-marine-veteran]On Memorial Day this week, a former Marine in Texas named James got a couple calls from friends who'd spotted an unusual gathering in downtown Fort Worth: Roughly a dozen people, mostly men, were hanging out in the middle of the city's cultural district, armed with semi-automatic rifles. James quickly knew what his friends were describing, having recently encountered an open-carry demonstration himself in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. An independent TV commercial producer who sometimes films live events, James headed downtown with his camera to get some footage.
What he saw there struck him as especially provocative. Not only had the open-carry activists come to a typically relaxed, family friendly part of town, they were displaying intimidating firearms just three days after a major gun massacre in Southern California. What he didn't anticipate was that they would soon be pursuing him for several city blocks with cameras of their own, harassing him and later posting the footage online, where they would also level homophobic slurs and violent threats against him.
Women who speak out have been the primary target for gun activists, as I detailed in a recent investigation. But now, on a day meant to honor fallen service members, a military vet would make the hit list.[/url][/quote]
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tl;dr: Marine gets insulted by gun owners for not sharing their views.
Opinions on this?
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Meh, from the video the marine looks like a self-righteous douchebag who thinks that serving in the military somehow makes him superior. Maybe it was a bit insensitive to have a pro-gun gathering in public just a few days after a massacre, but the activists were polite and this guy just had to crash the party and start ranting his anti-gun views.