Armed man confronts protester (TX)

[struggle4progress]

By Lucinda Breeding Staff Writer [e-mail]
Published: 20 July 2015 10:59 PM

A man carrying a loaded semiautomatic rifle confronted local activist Willie Hudspeth on Monday night as he held a sign protesting the Confederate soldier memorial on Denton’s downtown Square. Police quickly came to the scene, and a bystander said the man with the gun forfeited his ammunition to law enforcement before leaving the scene with his rifle. The man identified himself as Stephen Passariello in a comment on a Denton Record-Chronicle Facebook post about the confrontation. Passariello said he took a loaded gun with him “to make a point” ... Hudspeth, 69, said he decided to protest at the memorial again when he saw Monday that it had been vandalized overnight. He carried a sign reading “Please move statue to Confederate museum ...

http://www.dentonrc.com/local-news/local-news-headlines/20150720-armed-man-confronts-protester.ece

[Solly Mack]

1. “to make a point” - Snort. The point being to terrify Willie Hudspeth.

Fucker.

[Warpy]

2. This is why I'll leave the scene if some yahoo with a Big Ugly Gun shows up

Even if they're not planning mass murder of strangers, they're terrorists.

Leave those stupid things at home, boys. People out shopping at a mall aren't out to get you.