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I'll be out of town Friday and Saturday. I'll be at Fancy Farm in western Kentucky. It's Kentucky's biggest political rally. I'll be there promoting pro-2A candidates, mainly Rand Paul for US Senate.
http://www.RandPaul2010.com
I'll be at the open carry breakfast/lunch in spirit. Y'all have fun.
I'd also agree that going to the same place where OC is readily accepted reduces the educational value, although I like Cracker Barrel on I-75 because it allows us to spread the message outside Kentucky. I imagine some New Jersey travelers getting quite a good education!
I'd like to push some boundaries a little but I respect property rights. I wouldn't want to fight my way through a bunch of annoying anti-gun nuts exercising their right to free speech when I was at a private shooting range, and I'd expect the property owner to ask them to leave. Similarly, I wouldn't want to go to some private property that's inhabited by rabidly anti-gun people and open carry to make a point. I would like to have OC events in public places because I think that makes the best point and there is no legal recourse. On private property, we can be asked to leave and if we don't leave we'd be trespassing. That sounds like a win for anti-gun forces.
I'm very optimistic about the Open Carry Picnic at Jabobson Park. We need a LOT of people open carrying there. If we promote it well, we could have 100 people there, and it could be at least an annual event. That would be a pro-2A win.
There are so many positive things we could do. I'm looking forward to flexing our political muscle a little and exerting our rights to educate people so they understand their rights, because rights not practiced are rights lost.