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Jul. 15th, 2014
This is a bit dated, but I only just found out about it:
On July 4 in Dallas, a local musician staged an Open Carry Guitar Rally.
And 300 people showed up with guitars.
Obviously, the object was to parody gun owners staging open-carry protests, although the actual event wasn’t an anti-gun rally in itself. You can read the details here.
The local open-carry group, Open Carry Texas, was of course supportive of the rally in the sense that “we totally support the First Amendment” – which implies that yr now supposed to return the favor and support their 1A right to freak people out in Target and Chipotle and wherever the hell else they feel like carrying iron.
Ha ha. No.
It’s a shame the Open Carry Guitar Rally didn’t get nearly as much coverage as the open-carry gun protests. But anyway, it’s a great idea. I like the concept of showing how people react differently when you carry a guitar over yr shoulder en masse than an AR-15.
Of course, I’ll admit when I heard about it, my first thought Robert Rodriguez’s Mariachi Guitar Army.
And also this song by Deadbolt.
Don’t shred on me,
This is dF
On July 4 in Dallas, a local musician staged an Open Carry Guitar Rally.
And 300 people showed up with guitars.
Obviously, the object was to parody gun owners staging open-carry protests, although the actual event wasn’t an anti-gun rally in itself. You can read the details here.
The local open-carry group, Open Carry Texas, was of course supportive of the rally in the sense that “we totally support the First Amendment” – which implies that yr now supposed to return the favor and support their 1A right to freak people out in Target and Chipotle and wherever the hell else they feel like carrying iron.
Ha ha. No.
It’s a shame the Open Carry Guitar Rally didn’t get nearly as much coverage as the open-carry gun protests. But anyway, it’s a great idea. I like the concept of showing how people react differently when you carry a guitar over yr shoulder en masse than an AR-15.
Of course, I’ll admit when I heard about it, my first thought Robert Rodriguez’s Mariachi Guitar Army.
And also this song by Deadbolt.
Don’t shred on me,
This is dF
