TX music lovers mock gun enthusiasts with Open Carry Guitar Rally
This is my sense of humor,” said event organizer Barry Kooda, a musician who’s played for years around Austin. “I have a larger following than I’d like because I’m just the local yokel.”
Kooda suggested the rally on Facebook as a light-hearted response to gun-rights activists openly carrying firearms around Texas and elsewhere, photographing themselves inside national retail and restaurant chains to suggest corporate endorsement.
He addes he is essentially a gun rights supporter but, get this:
I have guns, (but) leave them at home. You have rights — you just don’t have to express them all the time in people’s faces.”
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Apparently the gun lovers aren't "fretting" about this...too much.
“They can bear their guitars and I’ll bear my guns — it’s all good,” said Kory Watkins, of Open Carry Tarrant County, standing outside a strip mall with a rifle slung over his shoulder. “It’s freedom of speech, doing what’s within their rights — and I support that.”
And it has struck a chord with others who want to hold their own Guitar Rally: the feedback has been pretty good.
I love it.
Another video at the first link.