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To: USA-FRANCE; jimwatx
If you were going to take a tour of the White House, would you bring a gun because it's your absolute second amendment right to do so, or would you exercise judgment and say that maybe at this place at this time, it's better to leave the gun at home?

If you were called for jury duty, would you take a gun to the courthouse because it's your absolute second amendment right to do so, or would you exercise judgment and say that maybe at this place at this time, it's better to leave the gun at home?

If you were going to a protest that had the repeated history of turning violent, not to join the protest but to record the law enforcement officers as they conducted lawful operations in the face of hostile protesters, would you take a gun to the protest because it's your absolute second amendment right to do so, or would you exercise judgment and say that maybe at this place at this time, it's better to leave the gun at home?

If you had two prior hostile engagements with law enforcement officers, the first where you vandalized their vehicle and the second where they restrained you to the point of breaking a rib, would you take a gun to a third encounter with law enforcement officers because it's your absolute second amendment right to do so, or would you exercise judgment and say that maybe at this place at this time, it's better to leave the gun at home?

-PJ

82 posted on 02/03/2026 12:23:28 PM PST by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: Political Junkie Too

There exists a Federal law against bringing a firearm into any Federal facility including the WH. There is no such law prohibiting bringing a firearm to a protest.


87 posted on 02/03/2026 12:31:24 PM PST by jimwatx
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“If you were going to a protest that had the repeated history of turning violent, not to join the protest but to record the law enforcement officers as they conducted lawful operations in the face of hostile protesters, would you take a gun to the protest because it’s your absolute second amendment right to do so, or would you exercise judgment and say that maybe at this place at this time, it’s better to leave the gun at home?”

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Evidently, I know exactly what you mean.
You are talking about common sense...

But here is the thing: Most humans often don’t follow common sense. That’s the precise reason we have laws.

Thus, if the law permits someone to do certain things, why should that person auto-censor himself and refrain from the liberty that the law is providing to him?


122 posted on 02/03/2026 2:30:54 PM PST by USA-FRANCE (Silence against evil isn't neutrality, it's complicity. Oppose the Iran-Russia-North Korea Alliance!)
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