Yeah, it's great that open carriers attended, but it's not effective to act emotional - calm, cool, logical is the way to appear in interviews.That was okay. Screaming it's in the Constitution should be ALL that's needed to be said but unfortunately I wish the reporter had filmed a calm, cool, and collected OCer while in the midst of educating another.
Mockery:Maybe he had too much coffee?:shock::shock:
It was a very public place.. there were cameras.. maybe officers of the law, maybe not-If our guns are so terrifying and every argument is going to turn into a murder, why are they so willing to stick around when the armed patrons stop by for coffee?
+1 Very true.Think of how far we have come in the last three years. Three years ago, people were worried about getting falsely arrested by the Seattle PD, and were fighting a battle to inform the PD about what is legal versus what is illegal.
Now, OCers are showing up at news conferences where the gun prohibitionists are there for the espresso purpose of denouncing OCers who drink coffee at Starbucks.
Now, that's progress. When you have people OCing their single action cowboy revolvers in down town Seattle and making it on to the news, that's a sign that the gun prohibitionists have been licked.
The gun prohibitionists just gave OCers to spread their message of freedom.
Oh I completely understand that. The spin doctors were busy discrediting the open carry movement by carefully crafting these clips of screaming and butt cracks hanging out. It's still not okay to raise your voice like that when responding to 1 question or 50 questions at a time. If they can't hear you- they'll shush up. Raising your voice only raises the tension/stress level/alertness, etc. You don't need to be branded as "extreme" or "intense" or worse have someone suggest your rage will be channeled through your firearm and cause injury.
I would like to say that I have NEVER put you down. If you feel uncomfortable with what I have to say- so be it. I have never called you a baby, as you would have it with your blanket statement. Nobody ever called you a nutjob or a wacko. I never said you were out of line or anything. I only ever suggested the thoughts of others and we conversed of the benefits of caffeine in coffee. The picture is pretty funny.If you have a fear of being labled one should stay home and cower under their bed with a blankie.
You can monday morning quarterback all you want but you were not there I hope your thumb didn't get to water logged while you rubbed your blankie.