Confusion reigned during the No Kings protest under Utah’s lax gun laws. Organizers haven’t commented on the peacekeepers and if they knew peacekeepers were armed. Nothing good ever comes from guns. An innocent bystander died. It doesn’t have to be this way. www.thehandbasket.co/p/salt-lake-... - ThreadSky

christine520.bsky.social • 10 days ago

Confusion reigned during the No Kings protest under Utah’s lax gun laws. Organizers haven’t commented on the peacekeepers and if they knew peacekeepers were armed. Nothing good ever comes from guns. An innocent bystander died. It doesn’t have to be this way.

https://www.thehandbasket.co/p/salt-lake-city-no-kings-shooting-arturo-gamboa

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the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social•10 days ago

It’s times like these I really wish we didn’t allow so many f*cking guns to circulate in this country. We’ve created a powder keg.

christine520.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yep. I hate guns so much! America’s obsession with guns is so embedded that I don’t think it will ever change. 😳

kslatteryresist.bsky.social•10 days ago

Yes I want to know why armed people were at the protest, seems antithetical to “peacekeeping”

bowtoy.bsky.social•10 days ago

Sounds like they got away with murder again

vero1986.bsky.social•10 days ago

The circumstances of the protest invite other questions: Does the mere possession of a gun at a protest in an open carry state constitute a threat? Do protesters have a right to know ahead of time that organizers intentionally selected volunteers with military training to monitor them?

meemawsezwhut.bsky.social•10 days ago

Here in Colorado this has already happened, in Old Towne Arvada there was a shoot out and some citizen "hero" got involved, and got hurt

If we know that this crap was going on in Saudi Arabia or even France, we'd prolly be thinking pretty dark thoughts about the lot. Uncivilized. Barbaric. Gross.