'Racist' gun range billboards in South Jersey should come down, activists say. The range's owner disagrees.
Updated: NOVEMBER 14, 2017 — 4:24 PM EST
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The South Jersey Shooting Club’s sign along Route 73 in Voorhees.

by Michael Boren, Staff Writer @borenmc | mboren@phillynews.com
A gun range in Camden County is resisting calls to take down two billboards that activists say aggravate racial tensions and mock NFL players who take a knee during the national anthem.

“It has absolutely nothing to do with race,” said Wesley Aducat, owner of the South Jersey Shooting Club in Winslow Township, which put up one of the billboards several weeks ago near Route 73 in Voorhees Township. The second appears on a digital sign near Routes 73 and 130 in Pennsauken. “It’s just support for our veterans.”

The signs say: “The only time we take a knee…” and show the silhouette of a person shooting a rifle, with the website of the club at the bottom.

Aducat said he supports the right to protest but doesn’t agree with kneeling during the anthem, particularly since many of the club’s members are veterans. He said he has no plans to remove the billboards.

That has upset the NAACP’s Camden County East chapter. It says the signs twist the message of kneeling, which is meant to bring attention to systemic racism and police brutality against people of color.

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“It has absolutely nothing to do with race,” said Wesley Aducat, owner of the South Jersey Shooting Club in Winslow Township...

Why do people respond seriously to an obviously ignorant question? Start playing the lefts game.

"That billboard is racist!"

"No, YOU are racist for saying that! I feel scared for my life now!".

Show the world how absolutely absurd these pople are.

I thought the proponents of “taking a knee” in protest were all about free speech and the first amendment?

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Originally posted by TSE:
I thought the proponents of “taking a knee” in protest were all about free speech and the first amendment?

What, you think that works in both directions? Nope. Some people think that free speech is only for them, not for people with a different viewpoint.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by TSE:
I thought the proponents of “taking a knee” in protest were all about free speech and the first amendment?

What, you think that works in both directions? Nope. Some people think that free speech is only for them, not for people with a different viewpoint.

Right! And they democrats.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by TSE:
I thought the proponents of “taking a knee” in protest were all about free speech and the first amendment?

What, you think that works in both directions? Nope. Some people think that free speech is only for them, not for people with a different viewpoint.

Yeah, for the libtards, Free Speech only applies when they agree with what is being said/expressed. Anything that they find 'offensive' or that they don't agree with is 'hate speech' or 'racist.'

Idiots.

Yeah but silhouettes are dark so......

But...the shooter on the billboard is black!

I think the NAACP is being short-sighted here. (OTOH, why shouldn't they go for a perfect record?) How much more mileage and publicity would they reap by publicly commending the SJSC for advocating armed resistance to authority? Their us-vs-them mentality blinds them to any viewpoints other than a knee-jerk reaction.

That sign is great.

Yet another illustration of the Left’s view of the First Amendment.

Just another example from the SJW left as to why the word "racist" no longer has any meaning whatsoever. What a bunch of tards.....

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by TSE:
I thought the proponents of “taking a knee” in protest were all about free speech and the first amendment?

What, you think that works in both directions? Nope. Some people think that free speech is only for them, not for people with a different viewpoint.

I think you both are giving these nitwit players far more credit for having enough brain function to actually know what they're kneeling for. These people border on utterly illiterate and I don't think they have any unified message or reasoning on this at all. They're just mindlessly following someone else's lead because...

As to the subject of the op, this complaint is beyond stupid and outs these morons for the race baiting filth they are. I used to think they should simply be ignored. Now I think they should be aggressively and viciously attacked when they start this BS. The message that should reign should be, no more of this crap will be tolerated.

Um, how about "go to hell, it stays up"

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Originally posted by TMats:
Yet another illustration of the Left’s view of the First Amendment.

And yet they're all for flag burning, tearing down historical statues, pulling down a ~50 year old cross memorializing American Patriots and allowing male sexual perverts in girls bathrooms (and the list goes on).

Progressivism is a Mental Disorder.
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Everything is racist

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Originally posted by Lord Vaalic:
Everything is racist

You're right....and since everything is racist, nothing is.

I think it is telling that the NAACP is still the "National Association for the Advancement of Colored People"! The rest of us are castigated if we use that description for them.

flashguy

They didn't answer the phone when I called the other day so I sent them a supportive email.