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In reply to the discussion: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple." [View all]RoseTrellis
(126 posts)12. Need to be extra cautious
If you choose to carry at these protests, which is your right, you really need to be extra cautious to not present yourself as a threat to LE. Really no different than informing the cops responsibly if you get pulled over.
Dont give them an excuse to execute them - resisting arrest can be fatal
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"You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple." [View all]
MayReasonRule
Sunday
OP
I'm going to wait for the NRA's statement defending Pretti's unequivocal 2A rights.
CincyDem
Sunday
#3
Excellent questions. How did the one agent know to look for the gun? Why did he immediately
Gaugamela
Sunday
#16
You're assuming they're that organized and that intelligent. Chances lean strongly towards no.
paleotn
Sunday
#23
The only thing they can stop a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a camera
Seinan Sensei
Sunday
#33
Yeah...but it takes nothing to "escalate" those fuckers. Look cross eyed at them and they
Bengus81
Sunday
#40
Historically, Strategic Surreptitious Strike Strategies Play A Major Role Against Overwhelming Force
MayReasonRule
Sunday
#18
Then they'll claim that a protester being ONLY twenty five feet away was impeding an arrest
Bengus81
Sunday
#41
The pigs fire all kinds of shit at protesters that aren't doing a goddamn thing.
Klarkashton
Sunday
#52
Don't RW nutriders open carry at their demonstrations? They truly are schizophrenic (in the split-mind sense) not an
artemisia1
Sunday
#6
As I recall, guns were all over DC on Jan. 6, 2021, including the one that Ashley Babbitt
allegorical oracle
Monday
#74
Exactly. These mask-wearing imbeciles were protesting Covid-19 mask mandates and shutdowns.
sop
Sunday
#35
Thank you. They tried to establish that yesterday and of course the media went right along.
underpants
Sunday
#51
Apparently the moron MISSED the protest inside the Michigan Capital Building in 2020,
Jack Valentino
Sunday
#68