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.
Re: “Never mind the guy in AZ was an Obama/Health Care supporter.”
Agreed on all points except this one. That isn’t true. He’s a libertarian anti-statist as he clearly articulates in this video.
http://cosmos.bcst.yahoo.com/up/player/popup/?rn=3906861&cl=15098903&ch=4226713&src=news
Libertarian firebrand Ernie Hancock helped to organize (or stage as the lapdog media puts it) the appearance of a dozen open carry protestors. Perhaps they were partly inspired by the media frenzy previously at the sight of a holstered gun in New Hampshire. They notified Phoenix PD who assigned a liaison officer to escort/overwatch. That’s one reason why the Obamadroids left him alone. He wasn’t within the Secret Service cordon either, as they would have invoked federal disarmament standards in that case. Obama was never seen near the protest.
Contrary to his comments about open carry in AZ, if Chris went out alone with slung rifle on the sidewalk in Phoenix, the PD likely wouldn’t have been nearly so respectful of lawful open carry. The liberal bedwetters here make charges of disturbing the peace or disorderly conduct an easy form of control and predation on any individual practicing their open carry rights.
Arizona appears to be teetering on becoming a leftist state, as demonstrated by our current Uber Stazi Homlund Zekurity czar and former Klinton appointee Janet Napolitburo who was previously easily elected governor to run the state budget and political climate into the red.
As to the protest, many more were packing concealed, but by carrying openly this was as much an exercise of the first amendment right to assembly and free speech as it was a snub at the gun grabbers. Sadly, many pro-2nd supporters are afraid of how this looks and political backlash.
The purpose wasn’t to sway or intimidate liberals: those kinder submitizens are afraid of toy guns, pictures of guns, and their own straw-men fantasies of knuckle dragging slack-jawed ‘conservatives’. If they only realized what harmless whimps the libertarians generally are.
For a conservative or libertarian trying to look ‘reasonable’ to gun phobes is like a hamburger trying to look like a salad to a vegan. There’s a reason why the Marxist media tried to hide the image of a well dressed peaceable black man armed in public with a sport utility rifle. That image is damaging to their class warfare race baiting tactics. They don’t want the brothers in the hood to see an armed black man not get hassled by the police. They don’t want the feminized public to see that the presence of guns don’t lead to carnage. So they portray conflict where actually there was none. Controversy, yes; conflict, no.
In general you are only likely to get this kind of civility where people can freely carry arms peaceably (this doesn’t include non-peaceable places that libtards use as straw-men such as Somalia or even our crime ridden inner cities). As a matter of tactics for self defense, open carry is generally a bad idea. But as uniformed cops demonstrate daily, the visible presence of the ability to apply countervailing force is a deterrence to mischief and violence. Contrary to The NY Marxist Times, more of us need to Pack Iron (and polymer) Before The Cameras.
Our rights are like our muscles, they need to be exercised from time to time.
Where did you see that? Got a link?