2fer: Protesters against Open Carry. & NRA's top attorney criminal history
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http://gawker.com/texas-open-carry-rallies-ruined-by-boob-flashing-libta-1612140734
[font size=5]Texas Open Carry Rallies Ruined by Boob-Flashing "Libtard" Ladies[/font]
An open-carry group too crazy for Open Carry Texas has been walking around flapping its guns. A group of women who opposes their display of weapons struck on a novel way to perturb the gun-fondlers: Follow them around topless.
Via Raw Story: “.... The topless counter-protestors carried signs that read, ‘[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]You realize that everyone thinks you're overcompensating for your teeny tiny 'gun' right?[/FONT]’ and "Boobs for peace." The women confronted the open carry advocates and said that as long as they openly carried their weapons, the counter-protestors would bare their breasts.”
Gun-loving ladlers of liberty, having never read Lysistrata, weren't sure what to make of the counter-protest. Besides, you, know, the usual sexist comebacks: ....
Nor is it the ladies' first time protesting in Austin; topless women also organized a counterprotest to open-carry dudes last March during SXSW. "[FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]This is not a pro-gun town," one says. "This is a pro-boobs town[/FONT]": ....
In the meantime, none of the blunderbuss-blubberers has managed to articulate why an open display of titties is any more intimidating than their long, hot barrels.
http://gawker.com/the-nras-top-attorney-was-convicted-of-murder-in-1964-1612596516
[font size=5]The NRA's Top Attorney Was Convicted of Murder in 1964[/font]
.... Using more than 2,000 pages of testimony—including behind-doors discussions that were never revealed to the jury that convicted Dowlut—Mother Jones' Dave Gilson tells in a mesmerizing longread how the then-Army private with a juvenile gun-crime record confessed to police and led them to a cemetery plot where he had buried the alleged murder weapon: a .455 Webley pistol. ....
But after serving half a decade in prison, and despite solid forensic evidence matching Dowlut's dug-up pistol to the murder, the Indiana Supreme Court found that police had overzealously violated his constitutional rights in obtaining that confession—they reportedly denied him a lawyer despite multiple requests—and his conviction was overturned. Prosecutors gave up on trying the case again when much of their evidence was tossed out with the confession.
Dowlut went on to reinvent himself as an attorney and went straight to work for the NRA shortly after law school, just as [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]the organization turned from its sporting roots to a more radical agenda[/FONT]:
Dowlut joined the organization just as it was being reborn. In what became known as the Cincinnati Revolt, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]hardliners had overthrown the NRA's moderate leadership and installed Harlon Carter as executive vice president in 1977[/FONT]. Under Carter, the NRA adopted uncompromising rhetoric and an aggressive political strategy that turned it into one of the nation's most powerful interest groups. Carter also envisioned recruiting "young men and women—lawyers, constitutional scholars, writers, historians, professors—who some day will be old and gray and wise, widely published and highly respected. It will be those individuals—in the future—who will provide the means to save the Second Amendment.”
And that's just what Dowlut has become, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]shifting[/FONT] over the past three decades [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]from defending gun rights to advancing[/FONT] an agenda of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]exceptional rights for gun owners and militias[/FONT], one that overturns even the most popular, minimal limits on the purchase, possession, carry, and use of firearms.
As Gilson points out, it's unclear whether Dowlut ever told anyone at the gun group, including close friend and frontman Wayne LaPierre, about his criminal past. Ironically, his and the NRA's rhetoric of [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]demonizing criminals as "not like us" and praising "good guys with guns[/FONT]" is precisely the kind of Manichaean outlook that once led cops to violate his civil rights as a murder suspect. Then again, maybe the cops and the NRA were right. Maybe Dowlut's not a good guy with a gun, but [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]just another criminal lowlife[/FONT].
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