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I do believe that I'll try and make that. Ah the beauty of being retired! Can anyone tell me if there's a way to legally open carry at this event?
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Poor planning. This is currently scheduled for the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend.... the same weekend that about 3-400,000 motorcyclists will be in DC for Rolling Thunder.
The dude that owns the web page lives in Cicero, NY.
There are certain questions/concerns about this that are not answered by that link.
Who is funding this? What planning has gone into this event? There is not even a caution about carrying in D.C.
Do the sponsors know that Rolling Thunder is scheduled for the same weekend and as a consequence there will likely be no accommodations available?
http://dc.about.com/od/specialevents/a/RollingThunder.htm
Some concerns articulated here:
http://forum.opencarry.org/forums/s...er-s-march-on-the-National-Mall-Washington-DC
A fancy web page with no information about who the people are behind this event.
I don't care what the cause is, I want to know who is the driving force behind it. Even if this is a true "grass roots" thing that sort of grew up around folks sitting around (literally and on the internet) talking about wanting to "do something" there has to be a core bunch that, among other things, "secures the venue". So, who are they?
"But skidmark," you ask, "Why does it make any difference who it is so long as the reason for the march is clean and pure?"
Well, let me answer my own question: it matters because until we know who is behind this we will not know if the reason is clean and pure. For all I know the Brady Bunch and Mayor Bloomberg's Illegal Mayors Against Guns could be setting this up to be able to use facial recognition to ID gun owners or other "radicals". It could be a plot by the BATFEieio to get gun owners away from their guns in order to stage confiscatory raids. It could be a plot by somebody's wife and her boyfriend to get hubby away for the weekend. It might even be the brainstorm of the National Association of Folks Who Work in the Hotel/Motel Industry to drum up business during a slack period.
Normally an event of this magnitude takes at least a year of planning. Demonstrations of significantly smaller size were set up and carried out in as little as a week (don't ask me how I know; the statute of limitations has not expired). But there is no such thing as a "spontaneous" demonstration. Someone is behind it. Someone's money is behind it. If the folks attending one of those demonstrations I mentioned knew whose money was behind it they would be quite upset. Without going into detail, "the opposition" bought and paid for a demonstration so they could manipulate it.
Who are the people behind that web page? Who are the people behind the demonstration, and are they the same folks as behind the web page?
stay safe.
PS - Yes, I have asked them. We'll see if I get a response and what it would be.
Could not have said it better myself. Right on Skid!