Looks like there is nothing these assholes won’t do to preserve their right to intimidate everyone around them into submission.

On Memorial Day this week, a former Marine in Texas named James got a couple calls from friends who’d spotted an unusual gathering in downtown Fort Worth: Roughly a dozen people, mostly men, were hanging out in the middle of the city’s cultural district, armed with semi-automatic rifles. James quickly knew what his friends were describing, having recently encountered an open-carry demonstration himself in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. An independent TV commercial producer who sometimes films live events, James headed downtown with his camera to get some footage.

What he saw there struck him as especially provocative. Not only had the open-carry activists come to a typically relaxed, family friendly part of town, they were displaying intimidating firearms just three days after a major gun massacre in southern California. What he didn’t anticipate was that they would soon be pursuing him for several city blocks with cameras of their own, harassing him and later posting the footage online, where they would also level homophobic slurs and violent threats against him.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/05/guns-open-carry-texas-harassment-marine-veteran

This shit is just sick, at what point does this kind of thing become illegal? When does brandishing an weapon while shouting at people violate their right to openly speak their mind? Free speech cannot exist when people might fear that speaking out will get them shot, this isn’t about their right to defend themselves and their families anymore it is about dominating all those around them into giving them whatever they want.

Edit to add link.