Posted on 04/11/2015 7:06:34 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Pontiac, Ill. - I received a call last week from a guy asking if he and his fellows could get some media coverage for the local chapter of Guns Save Life. Though this is something we don’t typically do, I gave him the “We’ll look into it” line.
Then there was this exchange:
“I also have a birthday I want to put in the paper, but when I walked by your offices, I noticed a sign that said I was unwelcome.”
Come again? What sign?
“The sign with the handgun and the red cross through it — I’m unwelcome in your building.”
Unfortunately for this man, whom I can only assume would leave the Charlie Hebdo clue unanswered in an intermediate crossword puzzle, we do indeed have a sign on our door that prohibits guns on the premises.
But it intrigued me to find out why someone would feel his safety compromised in a building of people armed with only slacks and pens, so I decided to drop in on their event at the VFW last Tuesday.
I attended the rally briefly, as other duties were more pressing. But in the half-hour I was there, it didn’t take long to notice a few things …
Every other person in attendance had a drink of some sort; the ones immediately around me had a wide selection in front of them. I’m the furthest thing from a teetotaler, but it would seem that a Hemingwayesque intake of alcohol pairs well with arms. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
Of the more than 70 people I counted, there were only nine women in attendance. There was a single person in the hall who wasn’t white....
(Excerpt) Read more at pontiacdailyleader.com ...
The no guns signs didn’t help the people at Sandy Hook.
References Charlie Hebdo and wonders why anyone would Ned to be armed in his peaceful office in the same paragraph and doesn’t see the irony. Priceless.
Hmmmmmmm, being a reporterI can understand how he never heard about that kerfuffle in France in a building of people armed with only slacks and pens.
He mentions that incident in the article.
I know this group. If you’ve driven I-74 in eastern Illinois you’ve undoubtedly seen their Burmashave-inspired signs dotting the highway.
Pontiac is something like 90+% white and the surrounding countryside and towns are 98+% white.
What did he expect? He knows Pontiac (as do I).
This guy is writing for the local newspaper??
Ahem, this guy will lose a lot of advertisers for the newspaper around Pontiac.
You’re right I should have read further, however I got fed up after he slimed the attendees as a bunch of alcoholic, sexist, racist White men, at that point he had gone beyond the event horizon of liberal stupidity.
I completely agree that militant douchebaggers like Westerheimer should NEVER be armed.
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