*snicker* Gun-rights activist Adam Kokesh arrested in Herndon

[Decoy of Fenris]

37. Because people with the potential for lunacy are a threat to anyone associated.

If this guy went off on some deranged shooting spree, he'd be tied to RKBA folks directly by those who like to broadbrush us in with him. With him behind bars, he is no longer a threat; threat removed, "Good thing for us." A walking disaster has been averted (benefiting society as a whole), and his actions are his own, not "ours" (Benefiting the RKBA group.)

The RKBA movement on the left is different from the nutters on the right; I won't speak for others, but I see the ability to bear arms in the same category as the ability to speak freely or the ability to have an abortion. Thus, my end of the "Movement" is to continue to aid in protecting the right to bear arms, but -not- universally; As with other civil liberties, there are restrictions within reason. I'm no absolutist; there are times when people should just not be able to own a firearm, namely felons or "hard drug" users like this jerk. The left-wing RKBA movement aims to shift the debate away from the overly-simplistic "Hurr scary guns baaaad" to a more progressive sentiment, namely that both psychological stability -and- personal safety/responsibility should be the order of the day when it comes to firearms.