Hijexx wrote:

Decius wrote:
2. Its cool to bring your assault rifle to Presidential speaking events. Everyone is going to be doing it.

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On the later point, intentionally creating a nation wide "bring you assault rifle to protest rallies" fad is the most blatantly irresponsible thing that I have ever seen the national media do. If you don't want to encourage people to do something, you shouldn't put a picture of someone doing it above the fold in your nationally distributed media outlet, you idiots! This is all going no where good just about as fast as it can.

Haven't been paying attention to any news lately. What's the deal with this? People are actually bringing guns to Presidential speeches? The Secret Service allows this?

Basically, someone brought their assault rifle to an anti-obama rally outside of one of the healthcare town hall meetings and the media, instead of just ignoring him, has plastered pictures of him all over the place, thus turning it into a fad.

Generally speaking the Secret Service doesn't have a choice - these people are outside the security perimeter for the event in states that allow open carry.

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