Gun buff's prominence reduced to past tense

Jesus C. Gonzalez, 23, was a prominent advocate of so-called open carry ...

Emphases added. It's funny, because the newspaper made him "prominent" in the first place. Now, after they made him prominent, they say he isn't prominent anymore, he only used to be prominent.

Gun buff makes $100K cash bail

Again with the "prominent gun rights advocate" bit.

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel's unconcealed insistence at making this guy the face of the Second Amendment is endlessly comical.

prom-i-nent adj DISTINGUISHED, EMINENT

He's not exactly Charlton Heston.

Gun buff captured in Sheboygan Falls

Hubing was wearing camouflage clothing when he rode his bicycle carrying an assault-style rifle and [a loaded .40 caliber] handgun [within a school zone] on Monday ...

Git in the truck.

I am for well trained individuals who wish to carry a handgun in a holster, not some young man riding his bike around like Rambo flaunting his "right to open carry." To me it seemed like he was getting a kick out of the attention and got what he deserved.

— Sheboygan (WI) Press reader spankymir

Such is the envelope of civil rights. Similarly, most people value their right to socially responsible speech, but they don't exercise it to produce dehumanizing hard core pornography, which is protected by the same bit of Constitution. They'll march against Obamacare, but they won't be picketing military funerals with Shirley Phelps-Roper.

The [S]tate constitutional right to bear arms extends to openly carrying a handgun for lawful purposes. . . . If, however, a person brandishes a handgun in public, the conduct may lose its constitutional protection.

— Wisconsin Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen

Gun buff.

Jesus* summons Tea Republican's travel agent

"God is calling me to this," said Tony Blando, president of the Unified Catholic Schools of Oshkosh, WI.

Jesus and Dick Morris, the unstoppable sacred and profane team.

* Not Jesus the "gun buff."

The celebrated firearms aficionado ...

Now he's a "prominent gun rights advocate."

The other day he was a "gun buff."