LANSING – A small group met this morning in front of the Frandor Shopping Center Kroger to demand the grocery chain ban customers from openly carrying guns in its stores.
The eight women, including East Lansing resident Linda Brundage, asked shoppers to shop elsewhere until Kroger prohibits customers from openly carrying guns. Protesters were members of the nationwide Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense in America. Brundage heads the group’s mid-Michigan chapter.
WOW EIGHT! That’s two-more than a Half-Dozen! The end is Nigh!
Also have a look at the photo!
They really should call the group “Grandmas Demand Action”, the photo doesn’t show the whole group, but there are three heads with a lot of grey hair!
I also found this photo from an earlier protest that obviously had as much effect as this devastating blow:
Few more people in this one, and all of them, if actually Moms, likely have children with grey hair as well!
Now I’m not being ageist here, there are lots of senior citizens fighting the good fight for gun rights, and I’m a HUGE Fan of Col. Jeff Cooper who was placed in the ground almost a decade ago at age 86. Still this group can’t even fill a short bus with their membership, and unlike gun rights groups there doesn’t really seem to be many young members to replace these older ones once they slip their mortal coil.
Hell youth can almost be considered a PROBLEM with gun rights. Look at all the photos from various Texas Open Carry protests. They get big numbers, but many of the participants are people in their 20s and 30s, and many of the problems with these groups comes from youthful bravado and the one-upsmanship that happens when people don’t have a long life that defines themselves.
All in all, I’m starting to wonder, with the VERY Small number of anti-gun supporters out there, and the majority of them being Baby Boomers, I wonder if we could simply just wait them out.
By the time my few grey hairs overtake my last blond ones, will there simply be nobody left to fight?
It’d be boring, given that I’m getting known as the guy who hounds the anti-gunners, but I’m sure I could find other things to do…like shoot the full-auto PDW I bought at the local hardware store! 😉
Weer’d,
A couple of points — first and foremost, watch with the gray hair cracks. As a decade old member of the gray hair brigade; some of us may look older than we really are.
Second, what I don’t see is people coming to Kroger joining the protest. I didn’t see any report of the protest being successful and there being an impact on the profitability of the store. Surely if people really were against Open Carry; there would be a lot of people willing to shop elsewhere.
Lastly, notice the willing complicity of the media.The pointed out the MDA group, had a comment from Kroger’s but didn’t offer a single comment or response from a pro-rights advocate. Surely they could have found one person in Michigan to give a comment supporting the right to keep and bear arms.
Nor did they talk to any customers, I really found that to be a curious omission. Could it be none of the customers supported MDA. Certainly the comments on the article seem to be running heavily against the protest.
Bob S.
Just outlive the bastards? Its a nice thought, but I don’t think so. Sadly nothing evil ever really dies, it just puts on a new mask. Still, with a little luck we’ll get to go to Bloomies grave and laugh, and laugh, and laugh.
You are correct that evil never dies. Still when you think of groups like the KKK or the Neo Nazis, they still exist, and are still active, but their numbers and power are so low they can be effectively called “Dead”.
Hell look at the gun control lobby. Joyce and Brady used to be the biggest dogs in the room, and a real threat to gun rights in America, but they have been struggling for the last decade. In comes Bloomberg and his massive personal wealth, and he effectively killed them, as the few wealthy anti-gun donors that Joyce and Brady had, and were keeping them barely above water jumped ship over to Bloomberg’s groups.
Bloomberg IS a real threat (just ask the people of Colorado and Washington!) but from all I can see it is NOTHING but Bloomberg’s personal coffers making these groups run. Even if Bloomberg dies and leaves ALL his money to them, I don’t know if they could manage things for any length of time.
We shall see, and until then, we shall fight!
I wish they would come to Virginia and picket my Kroger’s.
I’d open carry just for them.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/04/woman-tells-everytown-quit-using-my-sister-a-gun-would-have-saved-her/
I wonder what Joan would say.