If you are exercising your rights (gun, speech, association, whatever) because it is reasonable and convenient for your well-being, fine.
If you are exercising your rights AT ME (carrying big awkward long guns in a coffee shop, screaming religious/political rhetoric on a sidewalk at passers-by, encouraging an angry mob to block traffic, whatever) because you are trying to make me think about something to my inconvenience/annoyance/concern instead of merely going about my business while you go about yours, not fine - and the problem isn’t me.
It’s not that I’m “scared”, it’s that you’re injecting yourself & your issue into my headspace and you’re wantonly pissing me off. You know the difference between exercising your rights because it’s appropriate vs exercising your rights because you want to make people deal with something they don’t want to deal with when they’re doing something else. You know there’s a difference between carrying a rifle into a coffeeshop because you’re walking to the woods to hunt, vs carrying a rifle into a coffeeshop because you want all the otherwise apathetic people to LOOK AT YOUR BIG F”IN RIFLE AND RESPECT YOUR RIGHTS which means you’re just being an @$$.
Thankfully it’s not up to you.
WELL SAID!!!!!!!!!!!!
“it’s that you’re injecting yourself & your issue into my headspace and you’re wantonly pissing me off.”
Do you own a strawman factory?
“Be not intimidated, nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery, and cowardice.”
Samuel Adams
I think I see the problem. If you don't believe in something, you believe in nothing.
Respectfully, and in a soft and careful tone, I disagree. You scumbag liberal slime, HOW DARE YOU!!! If I may gently and respectfully point out: it is up to a person how they protest, so long as they break no laws. WHAT ARE YOU, SOME SOROS-PLANT scumbag INSANE BLOOMBERG LIBERAL creep???!?!? I appreciate your right to have a different opinion, and I highly value your input, in the most civil and respectful way. THERE IS *NOTHING* REDEEMING ABOUT YOU, EVERY *INCH* of you is corrupt and FOUl!!!