Second Amendment or First. Pick one and only one.
A Colorado radio station owner who aired an editorial denouncing the holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. has lost his gun permit.
Nothing like airing an unpopular opinion and then having your rights taken away. From the way the article is written, the radio station owner lost his permit for allowing someone else to speak.
It’s difficult for people to put aside their personal opinions for what is morally right. I didn’t hear the broadcast, but the link says the guy spoke out against having the MLK holiday. For whatever reasons, be the racially charged or logically based, that’s something that is distasteful to many, but we cannot allow rights to be taken away simply because the powers that be determine that what you said is offensive.
If you don’t protect those that you disagree with, there will be nobody to help defend you when you find your position is the minority and offensive to many. I hope the progressives will come out of the woodwork and start screeching about the chilling effect this has, but I won’t hold my breath. This is a fight us gunnies will probably end up fighting alone.
The Greeley Tribune reports the concealed weapon permit was permanently revoked Friday, when a judge also ordered school board member Brett Reese to stay at least 100 yards from a rival radio station owner. Justin Sasso says Reese threatened "a shootout" over advertisers.
In fact, on further reading, it sounds like the MLK editorial may be a completely separate and pre-existing issue, and the report only used it to anchor the person's identity in the readers' minds by tying it to a previous story.