'Good Guys' ...

[SharpDog]

Well, add ANTIFA to the gun-toting gang members giving guns a bad name:

The self-proclaimed Antifa militant who was killed Saturday by Washington state police as he attacked a local Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center was seen in a recent CNN program that critics say glorified a radical, left-wing movement.

Willem Van Spronsen, 69, sent a manifesto to friends the day before the assault in which he wrote, "I am Antifa," and now he is lionized by members of the leftwing group as a "martyr."


He also appears to have been part of a May 5 episode of CNN’s “United Shades of America” with W. Kamau Bell.

The heavily promoted CNN show featured Bell explaining the “Redneck Revolt,” which he identified as gun-toting liberals who defend the Second Amendment and seek to battle the “alt-right” and neo-Nazis.

Bell called them “good guys,” going to a gun range with members and even questioning why “more white people” don’t share their viewpoints.

https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/cnn-antifa-ice-glorified

 

[Tommygunn]

Meh, antifa had a bad name before this. Plus, I suspect a moderator will close this because "bad guy uses gun =/= story this site does."

And he'll be right ....

 

[SharpDog]

Meh, antifa had a bad name before this. Plus, I suspect a moderator will close this because "bad guy uses gun =/= story this site does."

And he'll be right ....

I've seen quite a few 'bad guy uses gun' threads after shootings, at least 3-4 in the last 6 mos.

Examples:

Recent:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...-list-of-media-bigs-and-dem-lawmakers.847925/

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/problematic-shoot.853337/#post-11172318

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.p...-of-form-4473-violation.851747/#post-11139601

Older:
https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/sad-news-in-virginia-beach.852223/

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/dallas-shooting.806883/#post-10306867

https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/legal-aw-used-in-ca-shootings.793095/

What is particularly interesting is that the second most recent link above was closed because it was in the wrong forum and the mod said it could be 'reopened' if more info became available. No reference to a 'bad guy with a gun' rule.

 

[JohnKSa]

There's no "bad guy with a gun" rule. But not every news story that happens to mention a gun is really on topic. This is a story about Antifa, not about firearms. The fact that some Antifa members have guns and one of them used a gun in a crime doesn't make a news story about Antifa into a story about guns.