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Electric Monk

(13,869 posts)
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 03:12 PM Jan 2015

Lawmakers Ban Open Carry In Washington State Capitol After Gun Nuts Storm Building

(cross-posted from GD)

In a classic case of a group hurting their cause more than helping it, approximately 200 gun rights activists demonstrated at Washington’s state capitol building on Thursday morning to ostensibly protest the passage of I-594, a law that expands background checks in the state. A large number of the demonstrators brought assault rifles and holstered pistols to the rally. Eventually, after a number of speeches on the steps of the Capitol, some of the activists entered the building with rifles and made their way to the gallery shortly after that morning’s House session had ended.

A day after this display, Lt. Governor Brad Owen, a Democrat and President of the Senate, announced that openly carried firearms are now banned from the public viewing area. Owen pointed out that other forms of demonstrating are prohibited in the public gallery, such as applause, and they do not allow backpacks and umbrellas to be brought into the area. With that in mind, it would only make sense that guns are off limits.

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Lawmakers Ban Open Carry In Washington State Capitol After Gun Nuts Storm Building (Original Post) Electric Monk Jan 2015 OP
Beats the heck out of me how these bully terrorists get away with this crud. Well, obviously Hoyt Jan 2015 #1
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. Beats the heck out of me how these bully terrorists get away with this crud. Well, obviously
Sun Jan 18, 2015, 03:43 PM
Jan 2015

they are all white, and likely ignorant bigots.









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