“Liberals” can’t be trusted with guns,
because they are inherently immature.
They project this on others, and think
that no one should be trusted with guns.
Money post. BTTT.
I have to agree with WOSG, though, that it is not customary to display arms around legislators and that it would be a good idea to refrain voluntarily in non-crime areas from exercising this particular right -- while yielding nothing at all on the right.
After all, when it hit the fan on the University of Texas campus years ago, the sniper on the clock tower was quickly suppressed by all the armed civilians who produced their long guns from their gun-racks (open display was the rule). It was noted after the event was over, that the sniper did not succeed in killing another person after he began to receive accurate return fire from dozens of Texans.
HYPOTHETICAL
Something to think about: If Squeaky Fromme showed up at Obama's next rally and started shooting, and a bunch of armed civilians began shooting back at her, would the Secret Service snipers then feel obliged to kill all the armed civilians they could see?
We need some more explicit understanding of who's a good guy when bullets begin flying and everybody grabs his iron.
If no modus vivendi emerges, then screw the modus vivendi, we go back to asserting our rights. Otherwise the liberals will use our own impulse for moderation to screw us to the wall ideologically.