UNC students demanding gun reform removed from North Carolina Legislature

[riversedge]

Source: the hill



by Nick Robertson - 09/12/23 5:52 PM ET


Dozens of college students were kicked out of the North Carolina Legislature on Tuesday after the group protested for gun reform.

The students, part of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s (UNC) chapter of gun activist group March for Our Lives, planned the protest after a gunman killed a professor on campus last month.

At once, the group — wearing matching shirts in UNC colors — stood and chanted “vote them out” at the legislators before being escorted out of the chambers, according to video shared by one of the March for Our Lives co-founders.

The gunman, a UNC graduate student, was arrested after the shooting and charged with first-degree murder.

The Legislature protests come as North Carolina lawmakers attempt to pass the state’s budget. The Legislature’s Republican majority has not announced plans to consider gun control legislation....................

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4200653-unc-students-demanding-gun-reform-removed-from-north-carolina-legislature/

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NC is is like WI---both have a Repug legislature majority and love guns.

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[littlemissmartypants]

1. This makes me proud and gives me hope. Vote them out, indeed! ❤️

[GB_RN]

2. The NC General Assembly Was Taken Over In 2010...

With the Kochroach funded, Klanbagger “revolution”. Once these goons had control, they gerrymandered the fuck out of the districts for both the NC House and Senate, and have maintained control ever since.

No hope of winning it back any time soon, either. Soonest would probably be 2030, and that would require taking back the majority on the state Supreme Court in ‘28, then running a case that gats gerrymandering declared unconstitutional.

I hate ‘em all.