New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took a swipe not necessarily at the city of Boston, but at the men marching in the town's Straight Pride parade Saturday. Commenting on a tweeted video that shows mostly men with a few women marching, AOC said it looks like the men might have a "masculinity" problem.
"For men who are allegedly so "proud" of being straight, they seem to show real incompetence at attracting women to their event," Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. "Seems more like a "I-Struggle-With-Masculinity" parade to me. Hope they grow enough over the next year to support / join LGBTQ fam next #Pride!"
AOC bashes Boston "Straight Pride" parade for having few accompanying females
Right airhead. You will get just as many straight pride people joining the LGBTXZOI community as you will them joining the straight pride parade.
The organizers of this event made a public announcement that all who are not troublemakers or hate groups are welcome. If mostly men were interested, then how is that a masculinity problem? I thought a desire to carry firearms was a masculinity problem too!
In any case, there were police in riot gear, protesters against the parade because of course being for normal people means you are against non-normal people, and few arrests were made.
Media paid more attention to this than anyone else. It was a small group, a short 'parade,' and the very few incidents were the result of hysterical counter-protesters unable to control their emotions. BPD officers benefited most of all from all the overtime put in over this extremely non-threatening event carefully coordinated with local authorities.
True, but you know how leftists are. These are very violent and dangerous people, so even what's seemingly a harmless event can end up in a riot. It's not a very gun friendly state either so it's difficult to protect yourself.
There are many hoops to jump through, and it's expensive, but you can own a private firearm in MA. If it got to the point where anyone were firing off shots in Government Center the situation would have been far past fan-shit-hit time anyway. The 'counter-protesters' at an event like that would be mostly mealy-mouthed college kids who have never been in a fight in their lives, not Teamsters swinging potato sacks full of locks. The BPD has gotten pretty good at planning for this sort of thing since last summer anyway. Of course, it only takes one or two nuts of any political orientation to really **** things up.
The problem is not getting a license. The problem is when you need to use that firearm.
In my state, I wouldn't think twice about using deadly force because we are very liberal when it comes to the victim using a firearm. But I would not want to be in the situation of having to use that same firearm in those blue states.
Even if you were justified in a shooting, you still may be prosecuted, you still have to face a judge that gets voted in by the people, or you may have to face an anti-gun jury; not only for the charge, but quite possibly for a liability suit by the criminal or his family.