This guy is a fool. You can bet that the gun-grabbers are waiting with bated breath for some idiot to pull a gun out and start shooting so they can start screaming about gun control again.
I wouldn't doubt for a minute that they are even looking for some Dim mental cases to send to the meetings to stir up trouble in the hope he will get shot. Preferably a black or brown union member or members that attack protesters.
Yes,you DO have a right to carry a gun at a political rally. That doesn't mean it is an appropriate place to carry one because of the implied intimidation factor,just like the union goons with nightsticks. They don't have to actually beat on somebody with the nightsticks in order to suppress political speech or actions.
I carry a gun everywhere I go,but I wouldn't carry one to a political rally.
I'm of the same mind...after a fashion. If everybody is showing up and just talking/yelling, yeah, keep the heater at home. If union thugs show up with axe handles and big leers (and applied beatings to old men/women), then pack. But only after they initiate the intimidation tactics.
I'm of the same mind...after a fashion. If everybody is showing up and just talking/yelling, yeah, keep the heater at home. If union thugs show up with axe handles and big leers (and applied beatings to old men/women), then pack. But only after they initiate the intimidation tactics.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, Your comment seems to suggest that the old saying is true.
Better to have it and not need it, then need it and not have it.
Well, my thoughts run along this line. Town halls, in the way most of us "protesters" are approaching them, are local events. We all generally live in the area. The imported union thugs, on the other hand, don't. So they'll show up ahead of time and get off the buses and get their axe handles out (or we'll see 400 pound guys disembarking, with black leather boots on). We'll see, go home and get heat, return with little real effort.
Well, my thoughts run along this line. Town halls, in the way most of us "protesters" are approaching them, are local events. We all generally live in the area. The imported union thugs, on the other hand, don't. So they'll show up ahead of time and get off the buses and get their axe handles out (or we'll see 400 pound guys disembarking, with black leather boots on). We'll see, go home and get heat, return with little real effort.
Ahhhh, my friend this is where it gets fuzzy. According to janet napalitano and most of the leos in this country. Once you leave and return it is not considered self defense. Catch 22 anyone.
Either way, if I attend one of these and are confronted by what you've described; I will defend myself and others whether armed or not.
The purpose isn't self defense from an unexpected. The purpose is to "hit back twice as hard", like they were directed. If they want to intimidate, then we can show them what the risks are in doing so.
Yes, it is in fact raising the stakes in this weird standoff we find ourselves in. Given the rogue behavior of the government the last, what, 15 years or so, it's a long time in the coming. The Ohio town halls, where I live anyway, have been more or less non-thug so far. Which is good.
The purpose isn't self defense from an unexpected. The purpose is to "hit back twice as hard", like they were directed. If they want to intimidate, then we can show them what the risks are in doing so.
Yes, it is in fact raising the stakes in this weird standoff we find ourselves in. Given the rogue behavior of the government the last, what, 15 years or so, it's a long time in the coming. The Ohio town halls, where I live anyway, have been more or less non-thug so far. Which is good.
Well, that does take it up a notch so to speak.
I agree with the latter of your comment about gov. behavior but, in my opinion the rogue behavior has been going on about 30 years. Small steps.
Good for you in the non thug department! That is the way it should be whether we agree or not. In many ways this is just a repeat of history.
I would do my best to avoid confrontation but will not run.
Yes, it is in fact raising the stakes in this weird standoff we find ourselves in. Given the rogue behavior of the government the last, what, 15 years or so, it's a long time in the coming. The Ohio town halls, where I live anyway, have been more or less non-thug so far. Which is good.
To me, it would be most instructive to our rulers, if every gun owner showed up at all these meetings, rallies, tea-parties, whatever - with as much of their gear that is feasible to carry.
Don't bring wheel-barrows, or wagons, just your carry stuff.