Posted on 07/07/2018 11:12:32 PM PDT by deek69
CHICAGO - Student-led rallies around the country on Saturday aimed to show support for gun rights, though their effort drew smaller-than-expected crowds in a bid to counter the well-funded and organized youth gun-control lobby that emerged after the massacre in a Florida high school earlier this year.
Here in Chicago, people rallied in a corner of Millennium Park. In Los Angeles, protesters yelled "gun rights are human rights" as they marched near Pershing Square. In Washington, an American flag billowed against a backdrop of the Capitol as attendees said guns are being used as scapegoats and that society's problems run deeper than firearms.
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Who even knew there were rallies?! And during the summer, now? Stupid move on their part.
It is a very good thing that students organized the rallies and they should be commended for doing so but they should not take offense of low turn out or interpret it as a lack of support for the Second Amendment..
IMO, most pro gun people are locked and loaded for the coming crisis and don’t seek to advertise their support nor want to be doxed, assaulted, spit upon or give their employer a reason to fire them.
I read somewhere that the average age of those attending the “student organized anti-gun rallies” was about 45, and they all had professionally printed signs. You can bet that the anti-gun rallies were bought and paid for by George Soros.
We don’t have a George Soros or Tom Steyer chartering buses, buying box lunches, printing signs and t-shirts and paying $12 an hour for protesters.
This is not a thing that I am interested in doing.
The urge to destroy is far stronger than the urge to preserve.
And the destroyer can conjure up any imaginary result he wishes, while the preserver can only point to what concretely exists.
Mobs form to promote imaginary gratification.
The urge to destroy is far stronger than the urge to preserve.
And the destroyer can conjure up any imaginary result he wishes, while the preserver can only point to what concretely exists.
Mobs form to promote imaginary gratification.
True. I agree. If I wanted to meet with like minded people, I’d do it at a Cabelas or Bass pro parking lot an have a tail gate party. Go to Shot Show or NRA convention or just out to your local sporting goods store or gun show. I meet Pro Second amendment people everytime I go hunting. Meeting in DC is a waste unless we’re meeting to clean houses and departments. Dig in buy ammo.
I would attend a pro 2nd Amendment rally in a heartbeat, if one were held in Dallas when it's not 100+ degrees outside.
(And no, I'm no snowflake. I've worked outdoors in my own business for over twenty years, and for twenty years before that.)
I'd say that all depends upon the root motivations of the individual.
A destroyer would be ill advised to threaten the well being of anyone in my family, or my personal property. I mean to preserve those people and things at any cost, and will not hesitate to terminate such threats with all due force.
That also extends to preserving my country, if need be. The destroyers will find out whose will is greater, should they push us Normals too far. Once that candle is lit, nothing will be able to extinguish it, except complete victory by one side or the other.
Maybe the students should try organizing rallies with non-students around small towns.
“We don’t have a George Soros or Tom Steyer chartering buses, buying box lunches, printing signs and t-shirts and paying $12 an hour for protesters.”
Does someone need to provide us with this stuff, when we are the ones bragging about how much we value these rights over the left?
There are people that died to protect these rights in some muddy hellhole far away from home. Dive your own damn car, wear your regular clothes, make your own sign, and eat before you leave. That isnt costing anyone anything significant.
We don’t need to March and protest when we have 130 million gun owners and continued record amount of background checks for gun sales... Thats the proof. I did the gun rallies during the Obama Era and I still do them for our state but I don’t recall ever seeing hundreds of thousands turn out for rallies. Like I said, the gun sales are proof enough.
Seriously, if you’re going to hold a protest *in summer*, the only sane thing to do is add a disclaimer,
“For safety reasons, if the temperature that day is projected to be over (or under) (some number), assume the protest is canceled, and contact the protest organizers.”
We need not protest. What we need to do is vote appropriately, buy more firearms, and teach leftists of the meaning of the 2nd amendment. We are the silent majority who work everyday to keep this country great!
JoMa
They were probably reloading some ammo, or at the range. That’s what I would be doing.
The organizers are not very good. They choose poor dates and location. They also do a poor job of getting the word out ahead of time. Furthermore the people to be protesters are people with real life responsibilities not irresponsible students. Who’s teachers give them extra credit for being irresponsible. A
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