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flamin lib

(14,559 posts)
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 05:11 PM Feb 2015

Gun Control Group Hires Security for Capitol Hearing

https://www.texastribune.org/2015/02/11/pro-gun-control-group-gets-security-capitol-hearin/


"An unarmed, off-duty police officer will accompany representatives of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, Claire Larson, the president of the group's Texas chapter, confirmed Wednesday night.

The group has received "death threats, threats of sexual violence, threats against our children," Larson said, and judged Thursday's hearing to be a circumstance in which extra security was needed."

"In the first month of the legislative session, the behavior of some gun rights activists led to the installation of new panic buttons in legislative offices. One Democratic lawmaker now has a security detail after receiving death threats following his decision to kick a group of open carry advocates out of his office. The advocates grew increasingly hostile when they learned he did not support their cause."


Law abiding citizens. Threatening lives so they can wear their penis extenders outside their pants.

And it will probably fucking pass.

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Gun Control Group Hires Security for Capitol Hearing (Original Post) flamin lib Feb 2015 OP
fucking gun humpers! gopiscrap Feb 2015 #1
Death threats ... threats of sexual violence ... threats against children Trajan Feb 2015 #2
Yeah, then we let them have guns and walk around in public. nt flamin lib Feb 2015 #4
This is the face of billh58 Feb 2015 #3
Prudent move on their part. Paladin Feb 2015 #5
The gun lobby has absolutely no vision of what the future will look like nor do they care. world wide wally Feb 2015 #6
Gun activists have shown up armed to the teeth at these moms' meetings before. onehandle Feb 2015 #7
 

Trajan

(19,089 posts)
2. Death threats ... threats of sexual violence ... threats against children
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 05:46 PM
Feb 2015

I could never in my life tell somebody "I'm gonna kill you", "I'm gonna rape you and beat you", "I'm gonna hurt your children"

Some people are fucking sick, and it's a sad, sad part of our societal culture ...

billh58

(6,641 posts)
3. This is the face of
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 05:50 PM
Feb 2015

the right-wing gun lobby in our country. They are inflamed by the rhetoric of Wayne Lapierre, Ted Nugent, Larry Platt, Stewart Rhodes, Fox News, ALEC (Koch Brothers), and the rest of the crazy-assed cold-dead-hands gun nut crowd.

They are bent on destroying all that is good about the USA, and turning it into a lawless, guns-for-hire, Bubba wet dream.

Paladin

(28,734 posts)
5. Prudent move on their part.
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 06:29 PM
Feb 2015

We live in a country where well-armed pinheads gun down college students over parking spaces.

And at this point, absolutely no one should be surprised regarding death and sexual violence threats from the pro-gun crowd. That's how they do business.

world wide wally

(21,827 posts)
6. The gun lobby has absolutely no vision of what the future will look like nor do they care.
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 06:39 PM
Feb 2015

Their one and ONLY goal is to make money selling guns.
Damn any consequences

onehandle

(51,122 posts)
7. Gun activists have shown up armed to the teeth at these moms' meetings before.
Fri Feb 13, 2015, 08:00 PM
Feb 2015

Gun fetishists are unhinged and a threat to us all.

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