{"id":35450,"date":"2013-05-04T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=35450"},"modified":"2013-05-04T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2013-05-04T21:27:45","slug":"kokesh-to-march-on-dc-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=35450","title":{"rendered":"Kokesh to march on DC again"},"content":{"rendered":"

Folks have been sending me links all day about Adam Kokesh’s plan to march on DC with loaded guns from Virginia on July 4th. He’s hoping to assemble a thousand of his followers – in fact, he says he won’t march if he doesn’t get at least a thousand. From Salon<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Whether Kokesh actually goes through with his plan remains to be seen \u2014 he says he won\u2019t do it unless 1,000 join him \u2014 but the protest may strike a chord with gun fanatics, who stage \u201copen carry\u201d protests across the country to fight gun control laws. There was one in Washington in 2010, but those rallying inside District lines did not actually carry weapons.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I don’t see it happening. Yeah, I know, Kokesh has walked away from every one of his arrests in DC in the past, but that was until he marched into DC with a loaded gun. People take gun laws a little more seriously than they take laws against littering, trespassing and putting up posters in Federal Parks. Kokesh should know that since he was barred from reenlistment in the Marines Reserve for smuggling an Iraqi pistol back to the US.<\/p>\n

But I see the Virginia State Police and the Metro PD blocking the bridge so Kokesh isn’t allowed to break the law, but I also think it’s hard for Kokesh to assemble 1000 supporters with guns from his hippie band. he invited 15,000 people to his march on his Facebook<\/a> page and 600 have promised to attend, but then his last project, Veterans for Ron Paul March on the White House promised thousands and had 400 actually attend, according to his own numbers.<\/p>\n

While I appreciate the spirit of the march, i don’t in anyway support it. When we fall into the stereotype of the outraged gun nut, we don’t do anything for our gun rights in the view of the public – and that’s where we win battles for gun rights, in the court of public opinion. There have been a couple of stunts recently by well-meaning, but ill-advised friends which make gun owners, in general, look bad. This is another one. <\/p>\n

But, then I didn’t get an invitation to the March from Kokesh, so it probably won’t surprise or offend him that I don’t support him this time either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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