[Haiku Guy]

As I said to the tea partiers who carried guns to protests: this sort of thing should stop. Not because you don't have a right to it, but because it frightens people. And large political protests should strive to avoid things that make others afraid for their physical safety, even if you know in your heart that you mean no harm. Whoever organized this should have known better.

One Protester. One damn protester parading around with his rifle, being shunned by all. We're still talking about this one moron a-year-and-a-half later.

Meanwhile, armed thugs burn down half of Oakland, and Megan McArdle strains to admit that they might be a teensy-weensy little bit more violent than the Tea Party protesters, who harmed absolutely nobody, and cleaned up the parks as they left.

[SECURE AMERICA]

(As I said to the tea partiers who carried guns to protests: this sort of thing should stop. Not because you don’t have a right to it, but because it frightens people)

Why would it frighten people?
Have we gotten that far away from the folks that brought this Nation into being and fought and won 2 World Wars?
I have carried weapons for decades and I am around people regularly that carry weapons. I do not feel frightened. I feel safe!

[dools0007world]

Nice post. And I loved your passion. About time we get angry and tell the b******* “we won’t take it any more”.

[GeronL]

Didn’t some OWS guys in Pheonix show up with AR-15’s??