Did controversial billboard lead to vandalism?

The man behind a controversial billboard denouncing the NRA and Republican Party for their stance on gun control said he was told his ad may have led to a business being vandalized.

Idaho Falls attorney Justin Seamons said he placed the ad, which makes reference to the Sandy Hook shooting, on a billboard on Yellowstone Highway last week.

Within days, Seamons said the company that leased him the billboard told him vandals had struck a nearby business, possibly believing it was affiliated with the ad.

The ad was subsequently moved to a less-trafficked location on St. Leon Road north of Idaho Falls.

“No one should have their building or their property vandalized because someone is expressing free speech, and I’m sorry that that happened and that was never my intent or even my thought about how things would turn out,” said Seamons.

Seamons, a self-described gun owner, said he’d like to see restrictions on some high-capacity guns like the one used in the Sandy Hook shooting.