Open Carry Rally in DC

[JoeT]

Actually, it HAS worked for us very well until very recently. Americans today have a much more open mind on firearms and concealed carry than they did 40 years ago, in part because the community demonstrated we weren't the scary psychotics that Diane Feinstein and Chucky Schumer like to paint us. Every recent poll shows Americans much more open to guns and the right of self-defense than they were 40 years ago. The fact that a determined set of extremists has seized control of the legislative and executive branches and proceeded to act from positions of power has nothing to do with the fact that we have been winning the hearts and minds of the general public for the last 18+ years or the possibility that actions which seem to confirm Feinstein's and Schumer's caricatures may lose us those hearts and minds of the general public.

I contend that the general population has always been progun . I believe (and it may be the red hook speaking) that the reason our rights have eroded over the past 40 years, and more so in the last 5 is because there is a vocal minority. A minority that does something besides sit on forums and talk about doing something...they are united, and even if some think that someone's ideas may go too far, they ultimately stick together!

it's something that this thread, and hundreds like it on this forum and thousands like it on other forums, is actually proof of. It's a divide and conquer approach. First it was the hunters, then those that oppose open carry, then just the pistol shooters, then those that only shoot revolvers, then those with .22 , then anything that's not single shot, and finally nobody

Holy fuck what a stupid idea.

Fucking stupid stupid stupid.

Big time stupid idea. .

Hmm makes you wonder, what kind of a prize will they get for this stupid game? .

I think this will only show gun owners in a bad light. I'm all for opposing unconstitutional laws on principle, but is it worth getting arrested with felony charges, or possible injured or killed at this stage of the game?

Do I think this is the "brightest idea? not at all... but it's something. It beats the hell out of doing nothing, and is 100% better than complaining about the problem and complaining about the people trying to shine a light on the problem.

I've lived in a country without firearm ownership, where even to hunt you had to use an airgun. Many of those people would literally kill to get their rights back