Maybe so, but the fact that carrying a weapon openly is legal does not mean it is a sensible thing to do. At this time sending the message conveyed by the firearm is not productive and helps the left in stereotyping our opposition as being right wing militia types. We have to know who the auduence is, and how our actions will be perceived. Right now momentum is on our side.Giving the opposition the chance to portray us through their prism is not helpful.
Horse-apples, NOW is exactly the CORRECT time to remind the Leftist Commies in the USA that OUR SIDE has the weaponry to defend ourselves from the over reaching SOB Government!!
Cry me a river. The left will tar and feather us no matter what. Next they’ll say that they object to conservatives wearing white shirts, and some conservative will wear a white shirt and some weak-kneed rinos will freak out on the conservative.
I applaud this man for standing up for his rights.
Well, if you are under 37 years and not in the military, you a r e in the militia. United states code!
I agree to a point. The man probably should have left his weapon at home and just wore the holster. This is what I plan on doing at every Town Hall and future TEA Party from now on.
“At this time sending the message conveyed by the firearm is not productive”
ABSOLUTELY INCORRECT....
The SEIU and AFL-CIO thugs should KNOW that they aren’t facing a cowed opposition, unlike the Union meetings they normally thug at.
... When the f—k did people get concerned about how the protests were being “viewed” or portrayed?
This is people doing what they want to friggen do. Get over yourselves. I could give a sh— about how anything is portrayed by the socialist PR mechanism. These are REAL people doing REAL things because they are REALLY pissed off.
Really, Who gives a crap what some liberal POS watching the news thinks? You think it friggen matters? Screw trying to manage the liberal response, as long as the “conservatives” are radicalizing, that is all that matters right now.
Jesus... Its like the liberal republicans are trying to “manage the perception” of this now, and water everything down to an ineffective and meaningless toothless dog and pony show. Heh, god, the GOP is full of f’ing pu—ies.
Care to divine the guns message for us?
NEVER MOVE TO VIRGINIA
And when the meeting ends, and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED as a result of this peacefully armed citizen exercising his rights, the exact opposite of your thesis above will be the point made.
Yeah, well, he didn’t ask either you or me. I say, God love him!
Like it or not, it’s a sign of things to come. If this bill passes, our freedom diminishes immensley. This battle WILL come down to defending ourselves in the streets. It’s time the opposition got a clue,
This is not the time for timidity.
You either develop some guts or shut up and follow the leaders.
Making average citizens out to be aggressors is exactly what the press and their slavemasters want. Congress is out of control, willfully mischevious and Barrio-bari-uhm and his handlers are the villains here. The fact is that the weasels in Congress know they must end Medicare and Medicaid as we know it and replace it with less expensive palliative and hospice care. If Bario-bari-uhm isn’t able to give his masters what they want, he may be discarded and who better to take the fall than an angry citizen with a firearm? Lee Harvey Oswald was surrounded by law enforcement officers carrying revolvers and that didn’t stop a determined Jack Ruby from getting within range at the magic moment.
Judging by the way President Bush was treated by the Left for the past eight years, it is obvious the Left will never respect anyone who dares to disagree with their Marxist Ideology, even if they help pass Legislation expanding Medicare or giving Amnesty to Illegal Aliens.
Based on that, I'll go with Fear.
Just "coincidently", I saw a report of Fox yesterday citing that old fraud Morris Dees about how the Health Scare is causing all us crazy right-wingers to go out and join "anti-gubmint" militias.
Which is a little silly, since those "militias" sprang up in the '90s, in response to the Dem's claims that you had to be part of a militia to have the right to keep and bear arms. Since the "Heller" decision, this myth has pretty much been put to rest.
But it feels very much like the tactics that they used pre-Waco.
Perhaps the next step is for Obama's evil minions to send a Bradley Fighting Vehicle to "protect" the town hall meetings from all us old, mostly white angry people...