[reaganaut1]

The gun "flaunters" are not trying to threaten the President but demonstrate that they will defend their rights, politically at first and by other means if necessary.

[Red in Blue PA]

We are all familiar with the right to bear arms and the noisome extremes indulged by its zealots

Are they joking?????

There are what......11,000 laws which law abiding gun owners must comply with, and we are told that we practice "noisome extremes"?

NYT.....GTH!

[AlphaOneAlpha]

“But is there no sense of simple respect due the nation’s elected leader when he ventures forth among the citizenry?”

Gee, this never bothered the NY Slimes during Bush’s tenure.

[Pistolshot]

Never mind the guy in AZ was an Obama/Health Care supporter. Never mind that people are arming in the wake of civil protesters being attacked by pro-Obama union thugs.

This isn't about the right to bear arms, it's about the right to PEACEABLY assemble.

Without the 2nd, there can be no 1st.

[VR-21]

"But is there no sense of simple respect due the nation’s elected leader when he ventures forth among the citizenry?

In my case there's none for the entire American political class, including the editorial boards of most major newspapers and the electronic media. I have the same antipathy for them that they do for me.

[WVKayaker]

These fools try to hide the BLACKNESS of the AR-15... and it's owner!

[TNdandelion]

What about the simple respect that our elected leaders should show towards the individuals that they represent and answer to? I don’t understand this “politician worship” mentality.

[real saxophonist]

(That weapon was banned in recent American history until a bipartisan retreat before gun-lobby propaganda.)

Really?

[tacticalogic]

But is there no sense of simple respect due the nation’s elected leader when he ventures forth among the citizenry?

There seems none among the elected leaders for the opinions of the citizens.

It seems the only way you can have an opinion is to show up with a gun. If you don't show up with a firearm, then you're just "astroturf" - somebody else's paid shill.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

Or, #3, that the NYT is incapable of acknowledging that so many gun owners and gun-bearers peaceably assembled, discussed issues, and left with no crimes being committed, not one gun being fired, no one being harmed.

You see, what is shocking to the NYT is not that Americans RESPONSIBLY took advantage of their 2nd Amendment rights ONCE (while the NYT IRRESPONSIBLY takes advantage of their 1st Amendment rights every day), but that these firearms didn’t jump out of their holsters and off the shoulders of their owners and run down the street shooting at people.

You see, the NYT actually believes that it is the object (the firearm) that is guilty of so much “evil” in America, and not the character (and criminality) of those that bear the object.

This idiotic perspective is analogous to people blaming the printing presses at the NYT for the lies of Blair and of the stupid, anti-American drivel that is splattered on their newspaper every day.

[Roccus]

What's next?" Citizens strolling in helmets and camouflage flak jackets?

...or perhaps helmets and gas masks as the left often does when protesting?

[MestaMachine]

“That is hardly reassuring, especially this summer when so many protestors seem to consider primal rage a reasoned political statement.”

What an odd choice of words from the same left Bill Ayers is a part of.

[saganite]

I am currently rereading Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire and found this remarkable passage in the first para of chap. 3. It’s not the entire para because my typing skills are not that great but the relevant passage is:

“A martial nobility and stubborn commons, possessed of arms, tenacious of property, and collected into constitutional assemblies, form the only balance capable of preserving a free constitution against enterprises of an aspiring prince.”

To me that is a remarkable statement written by an Englishman in a history of the decline of a great empire.

[MrB]

The author is one of those leftist people
who project their own immaturity onto others.

They don’t want others to be entrusted with
the awesome responsibility of carrying the means of self defense
because they know that they themselves could not be trusted with such means.

[Sloth]

When’s the last time the NYT lamented the “noisome extremes” of gay pride parade participants?

[Sig Sauer P220]

If the politicians don’t stop playing fast and loose with the Constition, the NY Slimes haven’t seen anything yet.

[GYL2]

I know that was just an editorial and all – expressing one’s opinion etc. But does anyone else feel a sense of nostalgia for the days when Journalists actually KNEW about the subject they were talking about?

[Legion]

Noisome?

So the NYT Editorial board is reduced to saying that we smell funny?

That's some nice name callin' there, Pinch.

[Paine in the Neck]

NY Times, 1775: It is hard to know what is more shocking: the sight of a dozen Americans showing up to flaunt guns on Lexington Green on the 18th of April, or the fact that the swaggering display was completely legal. We are all familiar with the right to bear arms and the noisome extremes indulged by its zealots. But is there no sense of simple respect due the nation’s ruler when his soldiery venture forth among the citizenry?

[CPOSharky]

No union thugs at that rally.

[The Wizard]

but notice there is no mention that he was a BLACK man.....