Open Carry Rally in DC

[Ronin13]

Okay, I have to voice this, to everyone saying "Being a pussy never helped," or "yeah, let's just let them take our rights away," or "If you don't use them you lose them." Blah blah blah. Look folks, there are two ways you can go about accomplishing your goals- the right way and the wrong way. Example, Emily Miller, she's trying to educate and inform so people can do it the right way and get the laws changed. Breaking the law and participating in mass civil disobedience is more often than not the wrong way. We've tried for years to promote the image that gun owners are honest, good, law-abiding, and for the most part we've proven this time and time again (look at almost every single pro-2A rally we've had in America). Well, wad that idea up and toss in the trash if 10,000 supposedly "law abiding" folks come out in force, defiant of the law (however silly and unconstitutional it is) [KEY PHRASE]: IN THE PUBLIC EYE (totally different case with going to WY to buy some new PMAGs after July 1 ) in such a widely covered area by the media. So this is a terrible idea, and these folks should be working on getting the laws changed, rather than going out in large numbers with the potential for wide scale media coverage, portraying us in a negative light.

[mtnhack]

^^^ This.
Not to mention that any arrested may further cripple their own future rights to bear arms.

[Squeeze]

I agree 100% with Ronin. There's a right way to do right and a wrong way to do right. These people in D.C. are going about it the wrong way...plain & simple. Then again, I think open-carry is just a big fat, "Hey look at me! I need attention!" thing but that's just my 2 cents. As Ronin stated, we are only going to win the hearts & minds of the general public if we contiune to show them we are a peaceful community of law-abiding gun owners who only wish to preserve our Constitutional rights and remain free from tyranny. This damn state has been inundated with pot-heads and Liberal hippies who think the ".gov" should just run everyone's damn lives because Obama is the "Great Messiah" who has the answers to all our problems. This stunt in D.C. is only going to draw negative media and diminish any/all positive progress we've made thus far.

[Kraven251]

then again in everything there is a tippling point, when that tipping point results in conflict where there are casualties, it is always important to not be one.

I think this is a bad idea, bad bad idea, but if they go ahead and do it, should prove interesting.

[Sawin]

then again in everything there is a tippling point, when that tipping point results in conflict where there are casualties, it is always important to not be one.

I think this is a bad idea, bad bad idea, but if they go ahead and do it, should prove interesting.

Yep. If something does prove interesting, rest assured, every last one of us will be considered a domestic threat and possible terrorist and I have a striking suspicion they will indeed come for our guns.

[Ronin13]

Yep. If something does prove interesting, rest assured, every last one of us will be considered a domestic threat and possible terrorist and I have a striking suspicion they will indeed come for our guns.

Wanna lose sleep- check out "Enemies, Foreign and Domestic." It reads less and less like a work of fiction and more and more like a historical tale we'll soon witness.

[Clint45]

I predict less than 100 people actually show up for this, and every single one of them will be arrested on felony charges.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Ok I think it will be better if we do nothing and let them come take our Rights 1 by 1

... and I think it would better if you stop giving them excuses to come take our rights away by acting like provocative idiots.

[Dingo]

Now if they were smoking reefer, or"occupying", they'd be applauded as courageous and nobody would have a darn thing to say.

And I agree - OC is a "look at me, look at me" in a lot of situations.

[JoeT]

Okay, I Look folks, there are two ways you can go about accomplishing your goals- the right way and the wrong way.

because doing it "the right way" has worked out so well for "our side" so far....there comes a time when "we" have to decide when "we" have had enough. I've hit that point, you may not have. I just moved to a state that proudly passed the toughest gun laws in the country days after my arrival (they also passed them in the middle of the night, with most people who voted NEVER even bothered to read the complete laws).
I have decided not to comply....I have decided that it's time to stop following the unconstitutional laws that are passed at night, under darkness, and behind closed doors. I am not out looking for a fight, but I will no longer comply either.

Your threshold may be higher....maybe you want to write a strongly worded letter to your representatives....they seem to listen to what their subjects want