They would have found something. On the order of 25 years ago I led an April 19th protest at the state capitol - back in the days of trying to make Colorado a "shall issue" state. Suggested dress code was suit and tie.
99.9% of the people showed up dressed in coat and tie. Press coverage? The 00.1% camo clad folks with shirts that said stuff like "Shoot 'em all, let God sort 'em out".
The press is our enemy. They will go to any length to cast us in a bad light. If not a single gun was visible they would have found something else to focus on.
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And? Make them work for it then. Don't sick cousin
Bubba on the community just because the press will find something bad anyway. If people do their best to not act like a bunch of shit throwing monkeys, then maybe the "bad" stuff the press finds won't really be that bad.