Durango’s March for Our Lives was a truly enlightening event. Over the hour that I stood with my pro-gun sign, claiming “We need MORE guns” and “The 2nd shall NOT be infringed,” I was treated to a litany of aggressive threats from the so called “tolerant” left.
It was surreal. Never before have I had my life threatened by someone holding a sign reading “Stop The Killing.” I was harassed not for my political position, but for my age, sex and race. Facts, logic, reason, were all thrown to the wind at the first glimmer of an opposing viewpoint. People who would otherwise promote inclusivity and diversity were attempting to tear me down because of things I could not change.
There is irony at every level of this self-awareness lacking event. One woman told me that guns should only be in the hands of the police. “Oh, the same police gunning down unarmed civilians like we saw this past week in Ferguson?”, I said. She proceeded to turn away and deliberately ignore me, shouting slogans whenever I would open my mouth.
This is the kind of rhetoric I found common at this event. People held signs preaching love and peace while shouting of death and violence. Is this really what the left has come to? Has Durango been subjugated to such an intense echo chamber that any differing opinion is met with aggression, incoherence and pure insanity?
Gatsby Fisher
Durango
