{"id":38486,"date":"2013-11-18T11:55:55","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=38486"},"modified":"2013-11-18T11:55:55","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T16:55:55","slug":"open-carry-activists-scare-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=38486","title":{"rendered":"Open carry activists scare us?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chief Tango sent us a link to a Daily Beast<\/a> article which charges that the recent rash of open carry activists parading around in public spaces with their scary black guns is scaring folks away from support for the Second Amendment;<\/p>\n

The incident is the latest headline-grabbing showdown involving open carry activists, who want the unconcealed carrying of firearms to be as normal as holding a cell phone. In groups armed with rifles and Gadsden flags, they\u2019ve demonstrated at the site of President Kennedy\u2019s assassination. They walk alone through state capitol buildings, and Home Depots, baiting police officers and frightening workers and ordinary citizens.<\/p>\n

The brazen antics of this mainly libertarian coalition\u2014think of them as the tea partiers of the gun rights\u2019 movement\u2014have had the unlikely effect of placing gun rights groups, law enforcement officials, and control advocates aligned in opposition. Legally, open carry activists are within their rights, protected, as they\u2019re quick to remind their challengers, by the first and second amendment. But when does this type of protest become a menace, to the public\u2019s safety and to the group\u2019s own message of freedom?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve remained largely silent on the whole thing although I fully support the open carry thing, the other side should be more concerned about the criminals who are carrying guns than peaceful activists. I fully understand the concerns that police might have, but none of those activists have opened fire on the unarmed. They have a right to be armed, if States allow it and just because a few anti-gun people are shaking in their Birkenstocks is not much reason to be harassing them. I don’t know about any incidents of open carrying folks committing crimes.<\/p>\n

I’m not an open carry kind of guy and I fully understand their position, but if they’re open carrying their weapons they give the criminal something else to shoot at while I’m pulling out my concealed handgun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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