Posted March 17, 2016 12:39 pm by Comments

By Bob Owens

Moms Demand's Shannon Watts

Moms Demand’s Shannon Watts

Moms Demand Action, the gun control group formed by public relations executive Shannon Watts and bankrolled by billionaire Michael Bloomberg, has falsely accused a gun rights group in Texas of threatening Obama.

The group claimed:

Texas open carry extremists are making threats against President Obama as he prepares to attend South by Southwest.

It probably won’t surprise anyone with the slightest bit of integrity to discover that the statement was both false and potentially libelous.

Here’s what Time wrote about Open Carry Texas visiting South by Southwest.

A gun rights group in Texas has organized an open carry demonstration at the South by Southwest festival Friday near where President Obama is expected to speak.

Open Carry Texas plans to hand out literature and show attendees of the annual film and music festival that “gun owners are no different than anyone else” while confronting the “stigma associated with firearms in public,” according to its Facebook event post. The group has been present at SXSW for the last three years and said the commander-in-chief’s high-profile appearance did not play a role in their planning this year.

“The fact that President Obama is going to be in Austin at the same time …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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