Open Carry Guitar Rally rocks against Texas open carry
Hundreds of music-loving people gathered at Continental Avenue Bridge Park in downtown Dallas on Sunday to protest the open carrying of firearms in Texas, Reuters reported. Many carried guitars as they reportedly walked along the avenue to find a shady spot to begin their jam session.
The event, Open Carry Guitar Rally, is meant to mock similar rallies held by open carry supporters. The group goes by the same name and claims it’s not anti-gun, but simply against open carrying in public spaces. It dons the phrase “Don’t shred on me,” and prints t-shirts with a snake coiled around a guitar, imagery borrowed from the Gadsden flag, a symbol of liberty and one often used by conservative gun owners and open carry advocates. The yellow flag features a rattlesnake coiled and ready to strike with the words “Don’t tread on me” underneath.
Concealed carry is legal in Texas with a license, while rifles and shotguns can be openly carried in public. A bill making it’s way through the state legislature would make Texas the 45th state to allow lawful open carry of modern handguns.
“Open carry might be inevitable, but at least this is our small little PSA (public service announcement) saying ‘carry guitars not guns,’” Rebecca Birmingham Montgomery, 52, told Reuters.
The group held a similar rally in Dallas last year for the Fourth of July and in other cities in California, Ohio, Oregon and Texas. Future rallies are planned for Nashville, Tennessee, and Denver, Colorado.
It is unknown whether the group has official ties to any gun control group, but one organizer, Kyle Reynolds, added the logos for Everytown for Gun Safety and Moms demand Action for Gun Sense in America as his Facebook profile picture on March 11.
Event organizers did not immediately respond to interview requests by article publication.
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Source: http://www.guns.com/2015/05/04/open-carry-guitar-rally-rocks-against-texas-open-carry/
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