y Visit to the Anti-Gun Rally, Eugene Oregon

[Mr. Scratch 91]

For anyone who isn't familiar with Eugene, OR, it is popularly known as Berkeley North; crowded with hippyleftists of many varieties and totally run in the hopes of establishing a utopian peace-state through communitarian social justice and weed. Total lack of common sense here. Anyway, CEASEFIRE OREGON decided this would be one of the few places in the state where they could show their faces, and so they held a "rally" in support of their draconian AWB HB3200 (which calls for confiscation or forced out-of-state sale of all but one registered so-called AW per owner, and allows the cops to search your house without a warrant if you do have one). They're going to have this on the Saturday Market stage, which is freakin' Woodstock '68 in the summer time. I'm esspecting a decent crowd by anti-gun standard, maybe 100 or so.

Well, I girded my fighting britches, grabbed a stack of OR HB 3200 copies with highlighted sections that describe the violation of the 4th Amendment against unwarranted search and seizure, and headed down to do battle.

When I arrived, I found a handful of people milling about in front of the stage, literally outnumbered by the pro-gunners who had come to protest, and the media who came to film the hubub. You can see my second pic below, this is when the organizer came to announce the festivities. More filtered in over time, mostly curious passers-by, until the ranks had swelled to a little less than 2 dozen (see pic 1). That was it. Compare this to the pro-gun rally in Salem a couple weeks ago that I'm told had about 3000 people attending (but no media, strangely).


Over the next hour I learned that:

A) You can buy any weapon, even a bazooka, over the internet without a background check.

B.) It'll be hard to screen the mentally ill from buying a gun because you have to pretty much be mentally ill to buy one in the first place.

C) There is little self-defense reason to have a gun, as not enough people try to prevent themselves from being attacked just by nonviolent negotiation and showing some kindness to the attacker.

D) Of course, if you hunt with an "assault weapon" you'll just blow the deer apart with your 400 rpm firepower, but that goes without saying.

Then a guitar abuser came up to beat on his instrument, and they all sang...no, I shit you not...they sang John Lennon's "Imagine".

Everyone was mostly polite, including the growing knot of pro-gunners and vise-versa. Okay, there was one incredulous young man who was outraged that people would come here advocating for eevul black death machines and wanted to argue it, but other than that all our contacts with the Ceasefire folks were polite and interesting, if factually one-sided.

Seriously though, I was surprised at how little support CEASEFIRE was able to pull in, on a non-raining Saturday afternoon, in moonbarking leftoidloony Eugene Oregon. I do believe the air is bleeding out of this movement.

Edited March 3, 2013 by Mr. Scratch

[Squishy 1,149]

Good job (and report)!

[Remek 771]

Ha! Love it! I hope the media reports it, and properly!

[gunman1 1,753]

Ha! Love it! I hope the media reports it, and properly!

Not a chance

[Remek 771]

Everyone was mostly polite, including the growing knot of pro-gunners and vise-versa.

Are you suggesting that guns make for a polite society? How dare you!

[patriot 7,197]

You're far more patient than I. I could never have gone there.

 

Hippies piss me off. My open loathing for those Nanny-State Socialists would have gotten me in trouble.

[thebuns1 4,323]

Yeah fuck hippies.

[storm6490 2,768]

nice fag flags!

[Squishy 1,149]

What was on the tall boards on either side of the stage?

[VR762Shooter 838]

They set themselves up for disaster with only 3 folding chairs

[Mr. Scratch 91]

What was on the tall boards on either side of the stage?

 

Pics of Oregon residents who'd been shot.

 

They set themselves up for disaster with only 3 folding chairs

 

There would have been 4, but I think Ginny Burdick, Oregon's own Battle Hag of Gun Control didn't show for some reason. Too bad; she's a particularly venomous gun-hater and it's always a kick to hear her rant. Most of the Antis will at least try to tone down their revulsion of gun owners when they get on stage to try not to alienate anybody who might be on the fence, but not Ginny. She despises us all as an entire species, and has no qualms about letting people know about it.

[Mr. Scratch 91]

And now the "news"...

 

KMTR did some tight shots that didn't show how small the group was. And then, in their brief mention that there was a pro-gun protest there as well, they showed 2 seconds of the weirdly-dressed local oddball who happened to truck by on his homemade bike when he saw the rally, in spite of the fact that they filmed a long segment with a well-spoken and well-dressed young man who hit all the important points quite nicely.

 

 

http://www.kmtr.com/news/local/story/Ceasefire-Oregon-rallies-in-Eugene/682QA7CwsEqo1Owv3CAm-g.cspx

 

 

This one admits the crowd was small and bordering on complacency, in spite of the author's obvious bias.

 

 

http://www.examiner.com/article/eugene-ceasefire-oregon-anti-assault-weapons-rally-fails-to-draw-crowd

Edited March 3, 2013 by Mr. Scratch

[zaxon_182 44]

Rallies in Salem: both draw over 1000

Gun control rally: barely can draw a dozen

 

It really tells you which side people are more passionate about.

[VR762Shooter 838]

I had to comment on the Examiner link. Some people are just blind or illiterate....

[well2160 42]

I really liked B. That's funny stuff.

[mancat 2,368]

You're far more patient than I. I could never have gone there.

 

Hippies piss me off. My open loathing for those Nanny-State Socialists would have gotten me in trouble.

 

some hippies change over time

 

my wife's cousin is a huge hippie and moved to Alaska a few years back. she went from shaking in fear when she learned that there were guns in our house, to carrying a .38 special on her belt. all it took was a few encounters in the wilderness with REAL crazy humans, and a bear or two.

Edited March 4, 2013 by mancat

[awgmann 0]

Thanks for posting that, especialy the pics. I thankfully live in a more conservative part of Oregon. It is nice to see that even in Eugene they get such poor support. Been awhile since I've been there but it used to be in the 90's like stepping back into the 60's there with people wearing peace necklaces and tiedie shirts. I hated the 60's.

[gunfun 3,931]

Nice coverage, Mr. Scratch.

 

I also caught the Prof. Elemental allusion. Between that and your gun, I think I can tell what your secret proclivities are.

[Mr. Scratch 91]

Nice coverage, Mr. Scratch.

 

I also caught the Prof. Elemental allusion. Between that and your gun, I think I can tell what your secret proclivities are.

 

 

I like the cut of your jib, Sirrah. But to the contrary, until you'd made my acquaintance I'd never heard of the good Professor, nor his arch-nemesis Mr. B the Gentleman Rhymer; my mention of fighting breeches being made sheerly out of proper good sense of attire! Now that you've drawn my attention to these splendid fellows, I count myself among their ardent enthusiasts. My happy thanks, and I doff my hat to thee.

 

Your's Truly, etc. etc.

Edited March 4, 2013 by Mr. Scratch

[Good Looking Ugly Guy 12]

Yeah fuck hippies.

If she's Hot I will.