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An open carry march through a black Houston neighborhood has been postponed due to a scheduling conflict (a march in Big Spring TX) but also to re-evaluate strategy.
"If you go marching through the Fifth Ward like a bunch of stuffy old white boys carrying guns and spitting tobacco you'll get a bad response, but if you go in there talking to people like human beings and explain what you're doing, the response will be different," David Amad - Open Carry Texas
"This walk will certainly be a departure from other highly publicized events. It is unclear how many will march but pictures by some of those expected to attend show members mocking the area's Congressional Woman Sheila Jackson Lee are not exactly friendly to the community. One shows a man in front of her office with a sign that reads "Gun Control = Slavery Sheila Jackson Lee Supports Slavery" and caption that read "Queen Sheila ran for the hills," and another simply shows a man eating a piece of fried chicken in front of her office."
What is the purpose of this march other than to offend? Some people are just plain idiots.
Oh, there's power in marching through a neighborhood other people think of as home and knowing that you're not wanted, but the locals can't do anything about it. Most businesses just tell them to b.gger off, and they'd not make it 50 feet into gated communities - but poor neighborhoods are easy, fewer lawyers or members of city councils or that sort of people. People with resources to fight back.
Reminds me of the Orangemen marches in Northern Ireland - Protestants marching, quote often through Catholic neighborhoods, to - ehm - "commemorate" a 17th century battle where it just so happened that the Protestants won and the Catholics lost. At least they just carry butler hats and a smug look.
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What is the purpose of this march other than to offend? Some people are just plain idiots.
I wonder what would happen if a group mostly composed of minorities carrying long-arms openly marched through a white, right-wing neighborhood to prove a point?
Given the number of threads around here that support shooting wildly into the darkness at anyone who "might be threatening" - and the criminal cases in the deep south where minorities get shot because "uh, he might have had a gun/knife/stick of gum/soda," I think we know the answer.
Remember - everyone is entitled to various rights, but some are more entitled than others. And, apparently it is now acceptable to ramrod one's gun fetishes down the throats of others by marching - armed and uninvited - through their neighborhoods... which is funny considering how that clashes with the other "right" to shoot anyone near your property who might be threatening...
Oh, there's power in marching through a neighborhood other people think of as home and knowing that you're not wanted, but the locals can't do anything about it. Most businesses just tell them to b.gger off, and they'd not make it 50 feet into gated communities - but poor neighborhoods are easy, fewer lawyers or members of city councils or that sort of people. People with resources to fight back.
Reminds me of the Orangemen marches in Northern Ireland - Protestants marching, quote often through Catholic neighborhoods, to - ehm - "commemorate" a 17th century battle where it just so happened that the Protestants won and the Catholics lost. At least they just carry butler hats and a smug look.
Why do you fools assume that these black folks don't own guns? They're walking through 5th ward, there's probably more guns per household there than any white neighbor hood around.
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