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.
Joan Walsh's book keeps coming to mind "WHAT'S WRONG WITH WHITE PEOPLE", why do they feel the need to attack others do the perceive this as an easy way to prove their manhood that's like a man taking candy from a baby, but these people seem to always be in groups so are they trying to prove it to their accomplice or themselves, nothing manly about that more of a cowardly act that shows those persons afraid to engage in a one on one.
i remember in 1967 i was in the Philippines there was a gay guy on my ship two other shipmates drunk decided to pick on him, he said "c'mon if it's one ting i like better than d..k it's kicking ass with a voice change and inference that shook the manliness out of those two potential bashers, attacking i groups has always been the forte of those who oppose making me wonder whose really the girly man? is tat why republicans are passing gun laws to pump up those lacking in maleness and need more help expressing themselves?
