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jpak

(41,760 posts)
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 02:34 PM Feb 2012

Libertarians wear holsters to protest Ga. gun law (on UGA campus)

http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/17017168/libertarians-wear-holsters-to-protest-ga-gun-law

ATHENS, Ga. (AP) - Georgia Libertarians (edit - douchebags) are pushing for a change in state gun laws and have urged members to show up on the University of Georgia campus wearing empty holsters.

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Libertarians want state lawmakers to change laws banning the carrying of concealed guns in most public places, including college campuses. Brian Underwood of UGA's Young Americans for Liberty (edit - morans) says Americans' right to bear arms shouldn't stop when a gun owner enters public property.

UGA Police Chief Jimmy Williamson says Georgia's campuses are safer without more people carrying guns.

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Libertarians wear holsters to protest Ga. gun law (on UGA campus) (Original Post) jpak Feb 2012 OP
Do you feel threatened by free speech, jpak? AtheistCrusader Feb 2012 #1
No - I fear morans carrying guns for political intimidation. jpak Feb 2012 #2
As usual you obviously didn't read your own post. - no guns, just holsters - calm down now DonP Feb 2012 #4
Oh I read it - they want to fill those holsters and march around with them jpak Feb 2012 #5
Too bad there isn't an equal worry about... Callisto32 Feb 2012 #8
I believe that jpak has a fear of leather. oneshooter Feb 2012 #14
All lathered about leather?! nt SteveW Feb 2012 #20
Well, fortunately, they aren't. Empty holsters, remember? AtheistCrusader Feb 2012 #7
He just has a thing about leather DonP Feb 2012 #3
More likely frightened by a fishskin.... PavePusher Feb 2012 #6
Any photos of these young republican bigots calling themselves "libertarians." Hoyt Feb 2012 #9
why do assume that they are bigots? gejohnston Feb 2012 #10
I know many "libertarians" and most of them carry and hate minorities. Hoyt Feb 2012 #13
don't know any libertarians gejohnston Feb 2012 #15
Yep, did not say I like them though. And, they all tote too. Just seems to go together where I live Hoyt Feb 2012 #16
As I understand it gejohnston Feb 2012 #17
You need to read up on Libertarians like Neil Boortz who got his start writing racist speeches for Hoyt Feb 2012 #18
not my point gejohnston Feb 2012 #19
Well, if you had to "carry" anyone that heavy, maybe you would feel hatred? nt SteveW Feb 2012 #21
Right, because there is no such thing as a pro 2A Democrat shadowrider Feb 2012 #11
Good for them. Atypical Liberal Feb 2012 #12
Kydex or Leather...that is the question. ileus Feb 2012 #22

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
1. Do you feel threatened by free speech, jpak?
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 03:24 PM
Feb 2012

After all, empty holsters is a clear exercise of freedom of expression.

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
4. As usual you obviously didn't read your own post. - no guns, just holsters - calm down now
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 03:34 PM
Feb 2012

There were no guns there, just empty holsters. Try to do more than rip and paste.

AtheistCrusader

(33,982 posts)
7. Well, fortunately, they aren't. Empty holsters, remember?
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 04:21 PM
Feb 2012

This is political speech. Maybe if they try it on for size, they might like it.

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
3. He just has a thing about leather
Sat Feb 25, 2012, 03:32 PM
Feb 2012

Probably Kydex as well.

Maybe his mother was frightened by a calfskin once?

I have noticed that many of the same people that don't like the 2nd amendment like Rahm and his supporters aren't too fond of the 1st either.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
13. I know many "libertarians" and most of them carry and hate minorities.
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 05:41 PM
Feb 2012

Can you name a non-bigoted "libertarian?" -- from Ayn Rand to Ron Paul.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
15. don't know any libertarians
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 07:11 PM
Feb 2012

didn't you say you know a lot of people who wants to go back to the bad old days?

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
16. Yep, did not say I like them though. And, they all tote too. Just seems to go together where I live
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 07:14 PM
Feb 2012

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
17. As I understand it
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 07:23 PM
Feb 2012

they can't logically be both
wasn't state governments that passed Jim Crow laws that infringed on individual freedom. Libertarians are just right wing anarchists. The two are mutually exclusive (if they actually think about it.)
never really thought about it or just stupid.
But then you like to equate all "toters" (which included at least a couple of freedom riders, civil rights activists including a former first lady.) in the same league as Lester Maddox because he had a revolver while the other goons had pick handles.
How good are you at spotting irony?

check out these links:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/117216599#post30
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Cruikshank

When defending local gun bans like Chicago, Brady lawyers list Cruskshank first, which was one of those "states rights" rulings. Basically, it said that the states could ignore the 1A and 2A. It also made the federal civil rights laws unenforceable, paving the way for Jim Crow. Civil rights lawyers have been hacking at various parts of it since the 1930s. McDonald v Chicago finally killed it.
fucking ironic isn't it?

(note to jury, I am not saying that gun control advocates are racists. I am not saying they were defending the more despicable parts of the Cruikshank, which have been struck down for years. I am simply pointing out that cases like McDonald maybe the last battle between "states rights" and incorporation. All am I doing is pointing out the irony.)

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
18. You need to read up on Libertarians like Neil Boortz who got his start writing racist speeches for
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 07:44 PM
Feb 2012

Lester Maddox. If that is not enough for you, check out Ron Paul and some of his newsletters from the 1980s. There are plenty of others. And we all know about how TBaggers feel about minorities and TBaggers love guns.

gejohnston

(17,502 posts)
19. not my point
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 08:05 PM
Feb 2012

I'm not Libertarian, anarchist, or anything like that. Simply pointing out the irony.

 

Atypical Liberal

(5,412 posts)
12. Good for them.
Sun Feb 26, 2012, 03:41 PM
Feb 2012

I dislike the libertarian mindset - the idea that if you completely deregulate industry, for example, that industry will just magically do the right thing with regards to everything outside of making a profit.

Regulation is why we have clean water, safe food and drugs, and at least some rules to protect workers.

That said, there is no reason why a man can walk down main street surrounded by hundreds of his fellow citizens while carrying a gun and can't do it on a college campus.



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