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Man carries assault rifle to Obama protest -- and it's legal

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Roper:
the libs are all a twitter... black man, ar-15, anti-Obama or at least anti-health care.  I appreciate the fact that the open carry citizens are all demonstrating as is their right.  I agree with rugermanx - a socialist by any color is a socialist; the rest doesn't matter.

armed and humorous:
I'm sorry, but I'm having a hard time with this one.  I fully believe in our 2A rights, and no law-abiding citizen should be guilty of anything for simply "bearing arms" in this country.  However, given the reality of our war with the antis, I can't help but think this kind of flaunting our rights in a situation like this is only going to cause more people to fear us, and join the ranks of our opposition.  I'm not saying the guy shouldn't be allowed to do it.  I'm just saying I don't think it's helping our cause, especially in this situation.  I'm no Obama lover, and I don't agree with a lot of the government spending he has promoted, (stimulus packages, bank and auto takeovers, government run healthcare, cash for clunkers, etc.).  It would have been different if Obama was conducting a town hall meeting to talk about gun control.  Then, it would have been making a statement that was relevant.  As it is, we get nothing out of it but a lot of this kind of negative publicity.

I might have a similar response if someone asked me why I carried a gun (because I can).  On the other hand, I don't intentionally go carrying to places where I know it is going to create a scene, especially one that would have lots of cops and news people around.

I'm basing all this strictly on what I saw of the CNN coverage, which was obviously not gun-friendly coverage.  Perhaps there are things I don't know about this particular situation that would alter my opinion.

FarmerRick:
Apparently, open carry of all types of weapons is quite common in the Phoenix area. 

RLMoeller:
There are subtle little things slanted in a negative way in the "reporting".  The AP news article used the word "incident".  I thought the cool part of this display was that there was no incident. 

Maybe I'm reading too much into it and the two gals who wrote the article couldn't come up with a better word.  Really, I have come to expect so little from the media.  Sometimes they are able to meet those expectations.

Rod

armed and humorous:
I suppose, if open carry is so common down there, that this guy (or guys) were just on their way somewhere and happened upon the event.  I  suspect, though, that they were there intentionally (not that it matters much).

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