7000 Armed, Anti Gun-Control Protesters Protest Obama In Roseburg Oregon! (er, well, maybe not 7000)
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/obama-roseburg-shooting-armed-protesters
SunSeeker
(53,582 posts)They follow the Hillsboro Baptist school of political tactics.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)to the Obama thing with their weapons?
msongs
(70,119 posts)murielm99
(31,414 posts)Not the Onion?
librarylu
(503 posts)eppur_se_muova
(37,352 posts)she didn't want to give her full name. There was a large Confederate battle flag behind her -- presumably someone celebrating Oregon's Confederate heritage.
jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)Well, this thread was further down so I didn't see it before SS's, & I read the bus schedule wrong, I got 45 minutes till it comes!
10/11/ 2015: Hundreds of irate Oregonians, toting guns and nasty signs, gave President Obama a derisive Friday welcome before he sat with relatives of last weeks college shooting victims. Obama Go Home and Go Back To Kenya read two of the crude homemade posters held aloft by demonstrators who rolled out the rhetoric, not the red carpet for the commander-in-chief.
Hes exploiting a local tragedy to make a political point, griped Bruce Rester, 66, who came from Glendale, Ore., carrying a .45-caliber automatic handgun.
The protest was organized by a gentleman named Casey Runyan. Casey Runyan, activist and 2014 Republican candidate for the Oregon House of Representatives,
In December 2004, Runyan was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and felony assault in which he later pleaded guilty and served eight months in county jail.
I guess under FOPA 1986, with nra support, Runyan got his gun rights reinstated.
And I guess to be fair, some gun control protesters are ex cons as well, eh?
Even so, "Runyan Go Home".