Armed protesters rattle Texas moms' gun-control meeting [Updated - Police Were Called]

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49. My point is no point, Someone speculated on what would happen if a minority showed up armed....

I found the photo because I was involved with SDS at the time and Fred Hubbard had just been shot to pieces by cops in Chicago. The Panthers had also been shot up in California and this demonstration took place at the legislature building in Sacramento. They were there during a vote on some gun control law and the Panthers felt that gun ownership was a necessary piece of their self preservation from cops and assorted racists. I was in Cleveland agitating at an antiwar demontration at about the same time.

If anything, this photo says some of us are talking out of two sides of our mouths, that the issue isn't arms but who is in possession of them.

Those guys needed to be arrested in Dallas not because they were carrying, but because they were menacing and trying to intimidate others out of their free speech.

You don't have a clue about my intentions, just a knee jerk reaction. Next time don't look for subtext, just ask the question.