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Maybe you have heard about a planned demonstration in Washington DC, a peaceful act of civil disobedience wherein thousands of heavily-armed men "put the government on notice" on gun-laws. And of course this demonstration will only turn violent if the government decides that violence is the appropriate course of action to tackle an unpermitted demonstration consisting of people who openly and willingly break the law.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/05/1965191/open-carry-washington-march/
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/05/08/1980841/police-open-carry-washington-march/
What if thousands of armed citizens descended on Washington DC in an unpermitted demonstration to "put the government on notice" about other issues?
What if armed black people descended on Washington DC to demand action against frivolous laws making it harder for them to vote?
What if armed latinos descended on Washington DC to demand fair immigration-laws?
What if armed environmentalists descended on Washington DC to demand the subsidies for Big Oil to be revoked?
What if armed liberals descended on Washington DC to demand congressional hearings and trials in court for those responsible for crashing the economy?
What if armed homosexuals descended on Washington DC to demand universal equal rights and an official rebuke of the pseudo-science and religious extremism that's keeping them from getting equal rights?
The media would regard this as an appropriate use of their 2nd amendment rights.
Those people weren't hostage-takers, terrorists, criminals, thugs, scum, left-wing-extremists, communists, socialists, fascists and enemy-combatants.
They would be treated as patriots trying to keep a tyrannic government in check.
Absolutely.
demwing
(16,916 posts)there you go...
datasuspect
(26,591 posts)when black panthers/activists/"movement" folks started getting "uppity" and arming themselves in the late 60s.