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jimmy the one

(2,720 posts)
7. protest organizer no saint
Mon Oct 12, 2015, 03:32 PM
Oct 2015

Well, this thread was further down so I didn't see it before SS's, & I read the bus schedule wrong, I got 45 minutes till it comes!

10/11/ 2015: Hundreds of irate Oregonians, toting guns and nasty signs, gave President Obama a derisive Friday welcome before he sat with relatives of last week’s college shooting victims. “Obama Go Home” and “Go Back To Kenya” read two of the crude homemade posters held aloft by demonstrators who rolled out the rhetoric, not the red carpet for the commander-in-chief.
“He’s exploiting a local tragedy to make a political point,” griped Bruce Rester, 66, who came from Glendale, Ore., carrying a .45-caliber automatic handgun.
The protest was organized by a gentleman named Casey Runyan. Casey Runyan, activist and 2014 Republican candidate for the Oregon House of Representatives,
In December 2004, Runyan was arrested on charges of driving under the influence and felony assault in which he later pleaded guilty and served eight months in county jail.


I guess under FOPA 1986, with nra support, Runyan got his gun rights reinstated.
And I guess to be fair, some gun control protesters are ex cons as well, eh?
Even so, "Runyan Go Home".

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