Protesting With a Semi-Automatic





Link to video.
http://www.breitbart.tv/exercising-my-rights-man-explains-why-he-carried-rifle-near-obama-event/

Newscom

Milling about among protesters outside a convention center in Arizona where Barack Obama was speaking on Monday, were about a dozen people carrying guns, the Associated Press reports. One of the protesters had a semi-automatic rifle slung over his shoulder. “In Arizona, I still have some freedoms," the man said when asked why he was carrying the rifle. Increasingly, protesters have been showing up with guns at the president’s speaking events to make a statement about their Second Amendment rights. At Obama's town-hall meeting in New Hampshire, a man carried a gun strapped to his leg while holding a sign that read, "It is time to water the tree of liberty." "It's a political statement," he told The Boston Globe. "If you don't use your rights, then you lose your rights." Arizona is an "open-carry" state, where you don't need a license to carry a gun in public as long as it isn't concealed. The leader of a group against gun violence said bringing a gun to a political event “makes the situation dangerous for everyone.”
Read it at Associated Press
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A4SU8G1&show_article=1

Posted at 6:15 PM, Aug 17, 2009

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Apparently he gets like 300 death threats a day....there's a lot of psychos out there. And they're probably all people with guns. (what a surprise)

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Only in America: Gunman waits outside town hall meeting for Obama - and police say it's OK

A 9mm pistol holstered clearly to his side, and holding a placard that references spilling the blood of patriots, this gunman is waiting for none other than Barack Obama.
But instead of being wrestled to the ground by police and taken away to prison, William Kostnic is left untouched - because it is legally OK to carry a weapon in New Hampshire so long as it is not concealed.
Kostnic was waiting for the U.S. president before a town hall meeting in the town of Portsmouth, New Hampshire yesterday. He stood in the grounds of a nearby church, which was private property, and police had no objections to his presence, MSNBC reported.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1205999/Only-America-Gunman-waits-outside-town-hall-meeting-Obama--police-say-OK.html#ixzz0OVLWUxJF

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Pea brain on steroids.

The hard right doesn't understand, respect, or want democracy.

If Obama does get shot, watch out, civil war could break out and leading rabble rousers Limbaugh, et. al. had better triple their security cause those pukes are way, way out of line. Virtual incitement.

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Open carry is legal in most states. This guy was breaking no laws.
I could do the same here in PA.

Sure.
Right up until the Secret Service feels you may be a threat to the President.
Then you can kiss your legal right to carry right out the window.

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It's illegal to threaten the President. The second amendment does not make it legal to do so.

Surprisingly, it is illegal in Texas.

Same in Colorado.

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Unless you have a CCW permit...and carry it concealed

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How dare these people do something that is perfectly legal. Where do they think they are??? In the United States?? And here I thought that if a small but vocal minority didn't want you to do something that you had to blindly obey them. Why would Obama worry about getting shot anyway? He's doing such a wonderful job. I guess he's the first president to ever be threatened so we should let the govt. take all the guns. F!#$&ng progressive idiots!

Well....
Yep....
F!#$&ng idiot! does now come to mind.

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Yeah, right.

If this had happened at Bush rallies, you guys would have been screaming.

Clueless.

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You're right. If I saw the same vilification of a law-abiding citizen, exercising at least three of his Constitutional rights at a peaceful rally surrounding a Bush visit, I'd be equally incensed.

Own a mirror?

i exercise my rights by owning guns. i have them just in case, i use them when there are possibly rabid animals around, and to scare off coyotes. i do not bring them out in public to exercise my rights. why?

it shows poor judgment. it takes a peaceful rally and adds too much "what if" and danger to innocent non-gun carrying fellow protesters. it feeds the fuel of anti-gun coalitions and politicians. it suggests something greater than just an exercising of rights because of the temperature of these meetings. it takes someone with intelligence, foresight, reserve, and humbleness to see this. obviously these qualities are missing. my grandfather believed strongly in the second amendment, that's why he taught me to not abuse it or treat it lightly, throw it around, or wear it like some needless badge of pride. it is what it is and it's there for people who need it. it's not to be taken so lightly.

this "exercising a right" argument is invalid in this situation as it involves other people's safety and rights as well. this is the equivalent of yelling fire in a crowded theater and then telling everyone it's your freedom of speech you're exercising. give me a break, these people aren't children, he's not brave, it's a careless, selfish, and idiotic move.

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