Posted on 11/07/2019 4:24:01 AM PST by marktwain
2nd Amendment Rally Report, November 2nd in Washington, D.C.
Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- The sky was blue, the wind light, the temperature mild, and there were thousands of Second Amendment activists at the Rally for the Second Amendment on the 2nd of November, 2019.
Counting was imprecise without a good overhead image of the crowd. About half an hour before the rally I counted a quarter and estimated about 500. The crowd swelled as the start time approached. My best estimate was over 2,000 activists were in the crowd at peak attendance.
Rob Pincus was concerned the Nationals' world series victory parade might impact the turnout for the Second Amendment rally. If it did, the thousands that showed up were committed and prepared. There were numerous flags, dozens of placards as well as hundreds of themed shirts, buttons, and stickers. One of the favorites was the Guns Save Lives stickers. Individual activists from the VCDL were handing them out on their own initiative, at their own expense.
Round, orange, Guns Save Lives Stickers were everywhere
There were a plethora of individually made and carried signs and placards, often variations on a theme. It was clear this was not a mass-produced rally with barely interested participants bused in. The participants I talked to came at their own expense. Many drove in from hundreds of miles away. Some flew; they came from as far away as Hawaii and California. It showed a deep commitment to showing up at an event with only six weeks' notice. The Gadsden Flag, yellow with the “Don't Tread on Me” logo, was popular.
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2,000 isn’t bad unless you compare it to the number of pussy hatted crazies who marched to show their hatred of those of us who voted for Trump. While I applaud the commitment of the 2,000 I suspect that Kongress simply ignored them. Actually 2,000 is the number of lampposts I’d like to see decorated with deep state operatives.
We do need to do better than 2K, that is for sure.
Dont scream, online about how CWII is going to happen if they try to take away guns, and then when there is something like this, you can only get 2,000 people in the area care enough to show up.
My guess is that 99.99% of gun owners even knew about it before hand or afterwards. As I wrote when it was first noted here on FR, it was DOA because it did not have wide organizational support or announcement. Imagine if they had national organization support and announcement, maybe even Trump, 10s of thousands, even a million might have attended.
Yes.
Did not get a lot of publicity.
Most assumed it was too short of a time frame.
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