BOOTHBAY HARBOR, Maine (AP) — A Maine town’s chamber of commerce has been receiving complaints from tourists regarding a large, hand-painted sign on a private lawn that reads “Black Rifles Matter.”
Linc Sample, the sign’s creator, tells NECN (http://bit.ly/2crLeN7 ) that his work in Boothbay Harbor is about gun rights, not race. He was inspired to post the sign after reading an ad in the local paper that supported a ban on assault weapons.
Sample says he used “Black Rifles Matter” — a play on “Black Lives Matter” — to make an impact. He says if anything, the Black Lives Matter movement should be “flattered” he used the phrase.
While many have called for the sign’s removal, Boothbay Harbor officials say Sample has the proper permitting and is exercising his First Amendment rights
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That’s really a shame about the size of his penis.
Overlooked by the reporter, in small print under the bold large font message:
"I am Governor Paul LePage and I approve this message."
I stopped last week at a diner deep in the Maine woods where I’ve been going once a summer for many years. A hand-printed sign in the door said “ThiS is NOT a GUn frEE Zone”. I never would have guessed that the half-dozen ordinary-looking patrons were packing. But it was a comforting thought, you know, in case any bad guys came in, with guns. Anyhow (as Trump would articulate it) something is going on in Maine. I think that it’s simple: Angry fascist racists like LaPage call forth enraged extremism. They’re more than divisive, they’re dementing.
Poor progressives. Wrong talking points. Don’t you just hate that?