Maybe one of our conservative posters would like to explain why having a rally to challenge grieving familes is a good idea? Gun Activists really do scare me, they have no intelligence or common sense. DENVER (AP) Gun-rights advocates are planning a rally at the same park where a group will read the names of gun violence victims on the anniversary of the Colorado theater shootings, prompting a state lawmaker to call the move "a slap in the face." Rocky Mountain Gun Owners scheduled a rally for Friday to coincide with a remembrance ceremony planned by Mayors Against Illegal Guns at Cherry Creek State Park in the Denver suburb of Aurora. Both start at noon. State Parks spokeswoman Jennifer Churchill said the groups were issued permits for locations that are within sight of each other, but she didn't know the distance. She said park rangers and law officers would be present to keep the peace. "I think it's a slap in the face of the people who are suffering the loss of a loved one," said state Rep. Rhonda Fields, a Democrat from Aurora. Fields' district includes the theater where 12 people were killed and 70 injured one year ago Saturday, and she plans to participate in the remembrance ceremony. Fields' son was shot and killed in 2005 to keep him from testifying in a murder trial. ."View gallery The marker of the grave site of Alex Sullivan is pictured at a cemetery on Thursday, July 18, 2013, Dudley Brown, executive director of Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, denied his group was being insensitive and said his members would be respectful. He accused Mayors Against Illegal Guns and its founder, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, of politicizing the Aurora massacre to promote gun control. "Mayor Bloomberg is using this tragedy and walking all over graves to get to the microphone," Brown said. Bloomberg's organization respects the gun group's constitutional rights to protest and to own firearms, spokesman Kelly Steele said. "But this is a memorial for Americans murdered with guns, not a pep rally," Steele said. "Their rights aren't in question, but their judgment certainly is." ."View gallery Tom Sullivan and his wife Terry share a mini-bottle of Irish whisky as they visit the grave site of Brown said other memorials to the Aurora victims have been "wholly appropriate" and his group didn't stage simultaneous rallies. "But when Mayors Against (Illegal) Guns had decided to dive in and make this a political issue, which they have since the beginning, we decided to dive in," he said. Brown declined to say whether his group's rally would include speakers but added, "I have no intention to get in a shouting match." On its website, Rocky Mountain Gun Owners calls itself "Colorado's only no-compromise gun rights organization." Brown declined to say how many members it has. Mayors Against Illegal Guns said its ceremony will start with a news conference, after which participants will begin reading the names of about 2,500 people who have been killed by gunfire since Dec. 14, when a gunman killed 20 first-graders and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. ."View gallery Tom Sullivan and his wife Terry visit the grave site of their son Alex Sullivan on Thursday, July 18 The names will be read until 12:38 a.m. on Saturday, the moment that the shootings began in the Aurora theater a year earlier. Scheduled participants include a wounded survivor of the Aurora shootings, parents whose adult children were killed in the theater and a woman whose sister was killed in Newtown. http://news.yahoo.com/colo-gun-rights-rally-called-slap-face-223400655.html
The real issue here is whether Gated Communities are legal and if a community can establish, select, train, and dispatch Watchers to protect themselves from outsiders and criminals. These Town Watchers seem to offer an alternative having each property owner acquiring guns for their individual protection, should outsiders burglarize their home or confront them on the streets of the very property they purchased with the understanding walls and gates would make so much safer.
Upon reading the headline I was somewhat disturbed, but after reading the attached article I am not. It would be in poor taste to counter rally a gathering of grievers, but of course that's not what we have here. Bloomberg is among the biggest little POS statists that exists in modern politics. He wants NO GUNS, not just no illegal guns. He's a punk assed little jackoff and any group that sides with him on guns is not a friend to American Liberty. The end.
The feminist aversion to violence in general, and now guns specifically, is emotional and irrational flying in the face of the facts such as more guns in Philadelphia has actually lowered the shooting this year. Always, these women and their girlie-men lackies attack the guns owner ship or the Military Organization of the people on the side of maintaining peace in the community or the world. They will band together against the US Army, but avoid the issue of constant rocket fire by Hamas, or threats of N. Korea to invade S. Korea. What these feminists need come up with is way to make illegal gun ownership effective. They need focus on eliminating the guns used by criminals who never registered them or obtained them legally. If they can contribute to that cause, everyone including the gun owners will applaud them.
Wow, good job! How did you get past the screener? Don't expect any intelligent answers from conservatives here. They just repeat what they hear on Fox News and the conservative talk radio monopoly. If they come up with anything that sounds original it just means they heard wrong.
They are doing it to make a point...blaming inanimate objects does nothing to the crime rate. If folk would get serious about the violence, then gun owners would not be the target of simple minded legislation
