Low Grade Terror = Bad PR

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Over the weekend I flagged how Open Carry Texas and a few similarly minded groups have decided to call off their campaign to have members go to restaurants openly carrying long guns to show that … well, to press the case that you should be able to carry your firearms into restaurants because freedom. You can currently bring long guns but not handguns. Thus the campaign to open this new front for freedom. But the groups’ leaders decided that doing this actually scares people or makes them uncomfortable and mainlymakes them really mad at you. Who knew? Now here’s video of members of the same group getting booted from Chilis. They had originally proudly posted the video as an example of the violation of their rights. But have now taken it down because of the whole making themselves look crazy and deranged thing.

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