![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Thirty gun-toting activists protested a public library’s concealed carry policy this week, startling the patrons inside by taking the demonstration — and guns — indoors. The protesters had taken offense to a single sentence explaining the rule: “Carrying concealed weapons is prohibited, except as permitted by law.”
Philip Van Cleave, the organizer of the protest and President of Virginia Citizens Defense League, compared the library’s gun “discrimination” to racially discriminating against African-Americans:
“What if they had said “We don’t allow African-Americans, except if allowed by law. Would that be okay? I don’t think so… [The rule] implies that no one is allowed to protect themselves on the property.”
-- News-LJ
There really isn't a lot of mystery why America is such a violent country. We still fancy the wild west days. We would like to walk around with cowboy gun holsters around our waists, and be able to settle a fight by stepping outside and drawing, and go around shooting down Indians and other darkies.
Philip Van Cleave, the organizer of the protest and President of Virginia Citizens Defense League, compared the library’s gun “discrimination” to racially discriminating against African-Americans:
“What if they had said “We don’t allow African-Americans, except if allowed by law. Would that be okay? I don’t think so… [The rule] implies that no one is allowed to protect themselves on the property.”
-- News-LJ
There really isn't a lot of mystery why America is such a violent country. We still fancy the wild west days. We would like to walk around with cowboy gun holsters around our waists, and be able to settle a fight by stepping outside and drawing, and go around shooting down Indians and other darkies.
