SHOT protest stopped before taking shape

By Daniel Terrill

Lee Goodman, a Chicago native who heads Peaceful Communities, protesting on the sidewalk outside the Sands Expo during SHOT Show on Jan. 24, 2018. (Photo: Daniel Terrill/Guns.com)
Dozens of armed security guards were dispatched at the entrance of the Sands Expo to break up the protest of the gun industry’s annual trade show — the SHOT Show —  before it could really take off Wednesday.
Peaceful Communities sought to juxtapose the world’s biggest gun show near the site of one of the worst mass shootings in modern American history, according to Lee Goodman, the protest’s organizer.
“We’re calling on the industry to stop opposing legislation that would make people safer from gun violence,” Goodman told Guns.com in an interview Wednesday.
Goodman explained protestors — which, despite garnering national press coverage, appeared to just be the Chicago native — planned to march the nearly three miles from from the Sands Expo to the site of the October’s mass shooting at the Mandalay Bay Casino and Hotel. But expo and hotel security guards ushered Goodman onto the sidewalk near the property about 20 minutes before the scheduled march.
In October, a lone gunman opened fire into a crowd of about 22,000 attending a country music festival outside

Source: Guns.com