“Firearms are frequently becoming part of political life as Republicans loosen restrictions on carrying guns in public,” Raw Story says (in a story here).
“Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s,” the New York Times says.
This will be short. If you have to brandish a gun to make your point, you don’t have a point worth listening to.
And guns aren’t speech. They’re intimidation and threats.
Photo: This bully doesn’t need to be protected from us; we need protection from him, in the form of stronger gun laws.
