Gun activists are following children. How is this not stalking?
Across the country, the Utah Gun Exchange is reportedly following students who are seeking new gun regulations after 17 folks were murdered at a Florida high school in February. It circled back to their home state Saturday, when the national group March for Our Lives came to Sandy, Utah. (Weapons checks were necessary like you would see at an airport or court.)
Yeah, they’re following children.
That’s weird.
Yet Bryan Melchior, co-owner of the Utah Gun Exchange, says he does not apologize for attending March for Our Lives events, the organization’s reported method of following the students.
“People say is it insensitive that you show up at these events?” Melchior told The Salt Lake Tribune. “What’s insensitive is the ability to go out there and promote, send this message that would seek to deprive people of their civil rights.”
But Elizabeth Love, one of the organizers of March for Our Lives SLC said, “If they think the best thing to do for their brand and image is to follow a group of teenagers whose schools were shot up,” Love said, “then that’s their decision.”
The UGE’s intensity caused Megaplex Theatres, a major movie theater chain in Utah, to call off hosting the MFOL event, reported The Salt Lake…
