Salt Lake City — Prosecutors announced last week that they would not pursue charges against Arturo Gamboa, an activist in Utah who was arrested in June after a volunteer “peacekeeper” opened fire at a large “No Kings” protest injuring Gamboa and killing Arthur “Afa” Folasa Ah Loo. The volunteer, tasked with security for the march […]
You don’t unannounced bring a rifle to a No Kings protest. Total inability to read the room on their part and you don’t bring guns to any kind of march unless you’re with the organizers and that’s what they want. If I was at a protest and some random kid was just walking around with a rifle I would not feel comfortable or “protected”. It isn’t his job to autonomously decide to “protect” a march. I guess I appreciate the spirit of it, but he’a gotta talk things over with other people first.
How do you know they weren’t asked to bring the gun?
The article says he was ‘tasked with security’, whatever that means. I don’t know, so I wonder what more you know about this.
If you’re tasked with security and your gun doesn’t have ammunition in it, you fucked up
Pretty sure the shooter was “tasked with security”. The victim appears to have brought his own weapon unprompted, and was assembling it on site, which, yeah, looks very sus. I think they made the right call but I also think it’s not a good idea to roll up and start assembling your rifle in a protest environment, least of all one like this where it stands out.
In Utah and other open carry states leftists have been marching at protests with guns for years, he was probably assembling it on site because it’s easier to transport that way. I agree this wasn’t a good protest for it but he had been armed at protests in the area previously, with other people armed also.
Open carrying only makes sense in the context of there being other open carriers you’re organized with. Going solo with a gun just reads as mass shooter shit, and makes you an obvious target if a shooter shows up. In this case, because another open carrying “protector” might decide to smoke you because you’re just a rando with a rifle
because it’s a fucking no kings parade, organized by the most anti-gun libs in history. what are you even talking about
Can you maybe not be an asshole because I asked a question?