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Man carrying assault weapon attends Obama protest
AP ^ | 08/17/2009 | AMANDA LEE MYERS and TERRY TANG

Posted on 08/17/2009 4:03:17 PM PDT by NetLiberty

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To: OneWingedShark

You PREACH it, Brother. Some folks need to hear it (though they are probably wetting themselves, just thinking about actually ACTING and being free!)...


161 posted on 08/17/2009 10:14:32 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: NetLiberty
I'm not saying either thing. What I'm saying is that making a show of firearms at an ostensibly peaceful assembly is, at best, a symbolic and narcissistic gesture meaningful largely to the bearer's ego, and, at worst, is asking for an escalation in what are already becoming tense situations.

Only because firearms have been demonized. No one says that about the Glocks riding on the hips of the security and law enforcement types at these gatherings.

It hasn't been so very long that those who lived in Switzerland showed up at the polls with their weapons, or they didn't get to vote. After the voting they would have a shoot. That goes back to the days of William Tell. The same thing was often done in colonial and post colonial America.

162 posted on 08/17/2009 10:15:24 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: NetLiberty
If chickenshit Barry is scared of my AR15, then how can I know he will stand up to any REAL enemy?

You're right, I can't.

163 posted on 08/17/2009 10:16:02 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: Lurker
Anything that makes the libs wet their pants is alright with me.

This can't be said enough. Make them cry!

164 posted on 08/17/2009 10:17:03 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: The Right Way 1776
0bama: the entire military plus nuclear weapons at the flick of a switch

I wouldn't count on that were I him.

Us: guns that wouldn't measure up to the DEA

Perhaps, although if they have 3 round burst M-16s, they'd aren't all that much ahead. Meanwhile there are way, way more of us. Numbers count.

165 posted on 08/17/2009 10:18:07 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: nufsed
Duuuuh! I guess you need a little history lesson. Poeple are stupid, issane and dangerous. If you think the president deserves the same protection as you, you are beyond stupid.

Really?

Really?

I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to Barry, but unlike you, very little of my day to day existence depends on him. "Issane poeple" could kill him, and a couple dozen of his successors, and I doubt I'd notice unless I broke my very successful TV news moratorium.

In fact, probably the only way I'd ever know is by reading you cry about it on FR.

166 posted on 08/17/2009 10:23:13 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: ~Kim4VRWC's~
It’ll keep thugs away, Until the thugs get the guts to bring their own..

Now you're talking, sister!

167 posted on 08/17/2009 10:24:07 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: Kickass Conservative
Besides, only Lefty types like to shoot at the President, not Conservatives. John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald come to mind.

Or more recently, Squeaky Fromme and Sara Jane Moore, of the Manson "family" and the Symbionese Liberation Army, respectively.

168 posted on 08/17/2009 10:26:01 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: nufsed
Go ahead and prove your point. Let me know how it works for you.

Just because your courage has very obvious limits, leave the rest of us alone. Or are you afraid you'd shoot the president. At least honest liberals own up to that, that they can't control themselves.

169 posted on 08/17/2009 10:29:38 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: The Right Way 1776
Set TrollCon 2, FReepCon Charlie and FR Advisory Condition Yellow

The Right Way 1776
Since Aug 17, 2009

170 posted on 08/17/2009 10:32:22 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: The Right Way 1776
The DEA has 300 million+ guns?

Or are you saying Obama would nuke the US?

Either one sounds pretty damn retarded.

171 posted on 08/17/2009 10:34:20 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: El Gato
LOL, I love that "The Right Way 1776."

I wonder if I went to DU and registered under "Lazy-ass Homo Lover," would I be more readily accepted?

How about "Godless Babykiller?"

172 posted on 08/17/2009 10:37:36 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
I wouldn't want anything bad to happen to Barry,

I can think of a lot of bad things I'd want to happen to him, but they do not involve physical force. Except maybe the US Marshall or the Marines, dragging his ash out of the White House after it's proven in a Court of Law that he is not eligible to the office he occupies.

173 posted on 08/17/2009 10:38:54 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: Trailerpark Badass
How about "Godless Babykiller?"

Even at DU you need a bit more subtlety. Maybe "Transsexual Mujaheddin".

174 posted on 08/17/2009 10:41:50 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato; Trailerpark Badass

You two owe me a new monitor and keyboard... I hadda laugh so hard I spewed snot all over them and I DON’T wanna hafta be the one to clean them up... so either pony up for new ones or get over here with your cleaning gear!


175 posted on 08/17/2009 11:53:33 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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To: El Gato; Trailerpark Badass
Come on guys ... be subtle. Trailerpark Badass: Peaches_DownLow
El Gato: Texas_RumpRanger

Good luck in your DU spelunking. ;)

176 posted on 08/17/2009 11:58:35 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (1st Amendment or the 2nd .... let them choose.)
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To: NetLiberty
I see nothing wrong with it at all. These guns just happen to be visable, many people carry a gun that can't be seen. Either way it does not bother me at all.

I stopped worrying about what a liberal thinks and having to be PC a long time ago.

If anything it shows the world that a person that is responsible can carry a gun anywhere and there should be no big deal about it.

177 posted on 08/18/2009 2:44:42 AM PDT by Katarina (Thank God for Conservative talk radio.)
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To: ALPAPilot

Wow, beautifully put, thank you, I agree.


178 posted on 08/18/2009 2:47:24 AM PDT by Katarina (Thank God for Conservative talk radio.)
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To: Man50D

Read my post again: If the circumstances do not warrant carrying a weapon, open-carry is just a massage for your ego... particularly when it comes to a peaceful demonstration where hundreds of people are present.

Open-carry defeats the purpose of carrying a weapon in a largely peaceful urban environment; namely, the element of surprise if a confrontation arises. If you’re openly carrying your rifle or pistol when the bank robbery or classroom shooting goes down, you’re just going to be the first person who takes one in the chest.


179 posted on 08/18/2009 4:17:48 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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To: OneWingedShark

Every example you offer differs from 2A in one giant, glaring respect; they do not have the guaranteed potential for taking human life, and they do not have tens of millions of armed, frustrated citizens ready to defend that right. Our legislators, and our enemies, are well aware of what firearms are designed to do.

Please let me know how the right to own a weapon will “soon vanish” if we restrain ourselves from open-carry.

You are correct in one respect; the current administration, democrats and RINOs, are a direct, barely adulterated threat to our Constitution. Thank you for your service to this country.

“You cannot invade the mainland United States; there would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.” -Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, to the Japanese General Staff


180 posted on 08/18/2009 4:30:32 AM PDT by snowrip (Liberal? YOU ARE A SOCIALIST WITH NO RATIONAL ARGUMENT.)
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