Some of you may have heard by now about the pro gun rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania earlier this week when two morons, as I called them in a previous blog, sported about with a banner that read that Rep. Angel Cruz, the author of a bill that would require gun registration, should be “hung from the tree of liberty for treasonous acts against the constitution.”
According to Jeff Soyer at Alphecca.com, another Philadelphia lawmaker received a threatening email.
Rep. Jewell Williams said during a news conference on gun control that he would ask police to investigate an e-mail he received Thursday morning from an Allentown resident saying Williams should be shot for supporting Rep. Angel Cruz, also a Democrat from Philadelphia.
Soyer goes on to explain that this kind of behavior from gun rights advocates does nothing to support and advance the cause for the Second Amendment.
Both the email threat and the ugly banner are of no assistance in helping our side to make our case. We need to engage lawmakers in intelligently thought out reason and arguments why the right to keep and bear arms is important. The actions above only go to reaffirm in many anti-2A minds the opinion that we are all a bunch of Cro-Magnon rednecks and I for one resent that implication.
He also points out what a hypocrite Rep. Williams is for caring about gun rights for himself and not others.
While I in no way condone the actions of protesters who resort to violence, I do agree with this statement made by Soyer.
This kind of behavior — granted it was by only a few boobs — needs to stop. Leave the death wishes and death threats to the leftist liberals. They do it so much better, anyway.
Which brings me to my added point in this story. The leftist liberals are better at violence and violent threats as history shows. If an investigation is done over the email and the banner carrying boobs at the rally, it may just reveal that neither party are for gun rights. It is not above gun rights opponents to create situations that make gun advocates look to be “a bunch of Cro-Magnon rednecks” as Soyer puts it.
Tom Remington
