{"id":185735,"date":"2014-08-25T20:05:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T01:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/25\/open-carry-this\/"},"modified":"2014-08-25T20:05:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-26T01:05:00","slug":"open-carry-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/25\/open-carry-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Carry This!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 344px;\"><i>Local Coverage<\/i><\/div>\n<p>In an eerie echo of the actions that led Ronald Reagan to sign into California law what was then the most restrictive gun law in the United States, the <a href=\"http:\/\/crooksandliars.com\/2014\/08\/hartmann-how-long-texas-changes-open-carry\">the Huey Newton gun club is staging open carry demonstrations<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">A Texas gun club named after one of the founders of the Black Panthers Party marched in Dallas on Wednesday to protest against police brutality, KTXA-TV reported.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">Around two dozen members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club carried rifles and red, black and green flags as they marched through the city\u2019s south side, sometimes chanting in support of Michael Brown, the 18-year-old man killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, on Aug. 9.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cIf they don\u2019t get these killer cops and corrupt cops under control,\u201d a member identifying himself as Commander Drew X was quoted as saying. \u201cWhat happened in Ferguson is going to be nationwide.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The club\u2019s leader, Huey Freeman, said Wednesday\u2019s march would be the first step in a campaign of \u201ccivilian patrols\u201d through the area. The state\u2019s open carry law allows \u201clong gun\u201d owners to display them unless it is meant \u201cto cause alarm.\u201d<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cWe believe we can police ourselves and bring security to our community, ridding our community of black-on-black crime, violence, police terror, etcetera, etcetera,\u201d Freeman told KXAS-TV.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Needless to say, I do not approve of open carry protests, but I do find a bit of schadenfreude in the the undoubted freakout that is going on in Dallas about black men open carrying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local Coverage In an eerie echo of the actions that led Ronald Reagan to sign into California law what was then the most restrictive gun law in the United States, the the Huey Newton gun club is staging open carry demonstrations: A Texas gun club named after one of the founders of the Black Panthers &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1055,988,1019],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gun-laws","category-race","category-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185735"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}