Pro-Gun Activists Want To Paint Counter-Mural In New Jersey

By Tom Knighton

It’s annoying with a governmental body takes sides in a political debate. It’s especially annoying when they take the side that seeking to undermine a fundamental, constitutionally-protected right like the right to keep and bear arms. It’s something that really shouldn’t happen. After all, the governments are supposed to represent everyone who lives there, not just the people who take one particular side of a debate.

In New Jersey, a gun control group was allowed to paint a mural advocating for their position on the wall of an underpass. No one seemed to raise a fuss.

Now, though, a group wants to paint a pro-gun one on the opposite side.

A group of activists is asking to paint a pro-gun mural on an NJ Transit underpass as a counterpoint to a mural with an anti-violence message recently created by a pair of teens.

The Montclair Republican Club, which is vocal in its support of the 2nd Amendment’s right to bear arms, said it plans to ask NJ Transit for permission to paint its pro-gun rights mural facing the teens’ “Never Again” mural, which they see as “overtly political.”

“It’s a question of equal time,” said the group’s president, John Van Wagner. “If …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms