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Originally Posted by ricardo900  That is exactly what the media is portraying and the majority of people watching is believing. Even though gun control was not on the agenda, anything negative about guns reported by the media and I mean any and everything from the "gym shooting outside of Pittsburgh" to the "man with gun at Obama townhall" is putting this issue "gun control" front & center. |
Of course the media reacted the way they did, and who was surprised by it? They are who they are. Guns will always be shone in a negative light by the media and I believe
the majority of people watching, deep down, are wise to the media agenda.
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It's not about sneaking around, it's about using poor judgement, there are numerous "open carry picnics" that are publicly broadcasted over the media and are very organized. What he did was self-serving, unorganized and was unsupported, which showed to the public the wrong message about the right to carry.
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Where I believe the poor judgement took place was decades ago when people first decided that carrying wasn't important anymore. That has lead us to this negative attitude toward guns. Yes, the OC picnics are organized, and are a pro-2A protest. Is that the only time anyone should OC?
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He was standing there with a thigh rig and holding a sign, which the media constantly refers to the "spilling of blood". There is a right and wrong way of doing things and by going around looking and acting like a "right-wing extremist", WILL NOT help our cause. Doing this scares the public, why do you think there are so many LEO encounters with people who LEGALLY open carry??? Why many of them feel the need to carry a secret voice recorder??
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To OC during a protest= acting like a Right-Wing Extremist? He didn't seem to be acting very extreme to me. In fact as best I could tell, he was rather quite calm. There was plenty of
public standing by his side, none of which seemed very scared.
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I am telling you guys, we have a liberal president, liberal congress, liberal senate, liberal media and probably soon a liberal SCOTUS. You guys keep pushing them and see what happens!
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And with all that, there has not been a new AWB. Even some of the most liberal congressmen realize that guns are a right that they ought not infringe upon, or at the very least, that they would get tossed out on their asses if they tried.
Do you honestly believe that Obama is "playing nice"? Do you really think that if he could ban every gun in private hands that he wouldn't? He didn't sign this because he was playing nice, he signed it because it was attached to something that he
really, really wanted. He just didn't have the balls to scrap the whole bill over it. Rest assured that Obama would sign any anti-gun legislation in a heartbeat if given a chance. But most of congress knows better than to screw with the issue too much, for fear of their jobs. A guy standing outside with a gun on his hip, who BTW
didn't touch it the whole time, isn't going to force anyone's hand.
08-15-2009, 01:47 PM
Absolutely. 
"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government." Thomas Jefferson 
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