Guns close to the President

[Alacrity59]

I tried to post a question or thought before on this subject . . . put it in a hideously wrong spot . . . well spotted by a mod who moved it for me . . . but I think it was passed by as it never hit the new posts . . .

As I said in that post . . . I have been in the Canadian reserves and have enjoyed firing many weapons. I've got a big dog too . . . but I fear a slice of pizza will get past him. . .


There was recently a speech given by the US president attended by a fair few folk wearing side arms . . . very very legally . . .


What are your thoughts on this. . . ?

 

[Obsessed]

I find it disturbing, although I presume the Secret Service had procedures in place to deal with the situation.

 

[futurman]

The people in that news story were just exercising their Constitutional rights. They were not actually at the speech, but a couple blocks away from where the speech was to be given. The police did not do anything because they were completely within the law in being there to protest with guns. Now, if they had been making threats and acting violent, that is another matter entirely.

 

[jazzman]

I wonder what message they are trying to communicate.

 

[PaulX608]

Hadn't seen that. Around here that wouldn't be terribly unusual. Virginia is one of several open carry states. I carry just about everywhere but work. I appaud him and his staff for not denying good law abiding citizens their rights under the circumstances.

 

[IronJohn]

I think that move by those idiots didn't do much to improve the image of the owners of assault weapons. That wasn't about protesting or exercising their rights and it was more about intimidation. Perhaps if a nationwide ban on guns was on the table I could see something like that happening. But it isn't, unless one uses some magic crystal ball to predict in the future that evil new black president of ours, Obama, is going to work toward it.

I just hope they aren't using the same crystal ball that was telling them to tell me Iraq had something to do with 9-11 and there was WMD's planted all over by Saddam like daisies. And I really hope it's not the magic crystal ball they are using to predict death panels or the other lies about healthcare reform.

I thought it was a sad display and as a gun owner I feel that sort of stupidity, legal or not, is going to lead to more people wishing for gun control.

 

[Groundhog]

I saw the guy in the Arizona pics carrying the AR slung over his shoulder. I can guarantee you that he was in a USSS sniper's scope the entire time....if he'd shouldered that weapon anywhere near President Obama, he'd have been DRT about a tenth of a second later.

 

[Brodirt]

Its all about image. The press was able to use a completely legal event to make a completely converse point.

The guys were stupid to let it happen, but the power of the press and the sheepishness of the population are the truly scary points to be observed here.

 

[ogopogo]

I find it disturbing....it's seriously wrong.

Imagine if someone had done that during the Bush years

 

[PaulX608]

I think that move by those idiots didn't do much to improve the image of the owners of assault weapons. That wasn't about protesting or exercising their rights and it was more about intimidation. Perhaps if a nationwide ban on guns was on the table I could see something like that happening. But it isn't, unless one uses some magic crystal ball to predict in the future that evil new black president of ours, Obama, is going to work toward it.

I just hope they aren't using the same crystal ball that was telling them to tell me Iraq had something to do with 9-11 and there was WMD's planted all over by Saddam like daisies. And I really hope it's not the magic crystal ball they are using to predict death panels or the other lies about healthcare reform.

I thought it was a sad display and as a gun owner I feel that sort of stupidity, legal or not, is going to lead to more people wishing for gun control.

I take great offense and personally detest the insinuation that anyone who disagrees with the current administration is racist. I didn't vote for him and I disagree with many of his positions, but I have great respect for him. The same respect I'd have for anyone, of any race or religion, who campained as well and won the election. He's my President. He has the toughest job in the free world and I pray for him daily.

 

[mretzloff]

I take great offense and personally detest the insinuation that anyone who disagrees with the current administration is racist.

+1

Not voting for or liking a person, whether or not they are a politician, does not mean you are racist.

 

[Left Coast DJ]

+1

Not voting for or liking a person, whether or not they are a politician, does not mean you are racist.

The Great White Dope

 

[mretzloff]

The Great White Dope

Oh, ok. So now all Republicans are racist

 

[ogopogo]

This is seriously disturbing.

Chris Broughton, the man who brought an assault rifle and a handgun to the Obama event in Arizona last week, attended a fiery anti-Obama sermon the day before the event, in which Pastor Steven Anderson said he was going to "pray for Barack Obama to die and go to hell"

The sermon, which was titled "Why I Hate Barack Obama" and also contained virulent anti-gay themes, continued:

... you're going to tell me that I'm supposed to pray for the so......t devil, murderer, infanticide, who wants to see young children and he wants to see babies killed through abortion and partial-birth abortion and all these different things -- you're gonna tell me I'm supposed to pray for God to give him a good lunch tomorrow while he's in Phoenix, Arizona?

Nope. I'm not gonna pray for his good. I'm going to pray that he dies and goes to hell.

 

[Vinny Bobo]

I think private gun ownership is the ONLY thing that restrains the Government from turning this place into Rowanda!

 

[IronJohn]

I take great offense and personally detest the insinuation that anyone who disagrees with the current administration is racist. I didn't vote for him and I disagree with many of his positions, but I have great respect for him. The same respect I'd have for anyone, of any race or religion, who campained as well and won the election. He's my President. He has the toughest job in the free world and I pray for him daily.

I'm not sure why you would take offense, unless you were the moron wearing the assault rifle in the picture circulating that I was referring to. But I feel a certain guarantee the type of person who would show up carrying firearms that close to a presidential event is also the kind of idiot that is racist. The comment said nothing about people who disagree with Obama at all. It was directed to the offensive display of firearms to intimidate and show off near him.

I'm just using the same crystal ball to deduce that as they are using to fear for their right of gun ownership.

 

[Vinny Bobo]

This is definitely worth seeing:


http://la-gun.com/manning/obama5/

 

[PaulX608]

I'm not sure why you would take offense, unless you were the moron wearing the assault rifle in the picture circulating that I was referring to. But I feel a certain guarantee the type of person who would show up carrying firearms that close to a presidential event is also the kind of idiot that is racist. The comment said nothing about people who disagree with Obama at all. It was directed to the offensive display of firearms to intimidate and show off near him.

I'm just using the same crystal ball to deduce that as they are using to fear for their right of gun ownership.

Again, I carry a firearm almost everywhere I go. If President Obama was speaking near here, which he has, and I was in the vincinity, I would likely be carrying. Using your generalization, that would make me an idiot and a racist. And again I take offense.

 

[Austin]

Gents, this type of thread is not productive for this forum. It is locked.