Peace, Love, & Gun Control? Activists Use Woodstock To Push Message

By Cam Edwards

It’s a weird world we live in when activists are using an event that was full of illegal drug use to try to make the case that prohibitionary laws work, but welcome to 2019. Moms Demand Action is teaming up with activist Steve Gold to give New Yorkers the chance to sign a piece of the original Woodstock stage as a way to push for gun control in Washington, D.C., on the 50th anniversary of the legendary concert festival.

After having collected hundreds of signatures at Woodstock’s 50th Anniversary events, Hudson Valley lawmakers will sign the panel Thursday afternoon in White Plains. Then, the stage panel will be displayed in state Senator David Carlucci’s Rockland County district office in New City for the public to sign through mid-October, before Gold delivers the panel to U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. And there is a change.org petition calling on McConnell to awaken the spirit of Woodstock.

The irony is astounding to me. Woodstock is synonymous with chaos, from the lack of food and the massive traffic jams leading to the festival site to the rampant illegal drug use and the haphazard scheduling of artists who made …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms