Twelve Carry Guns -- Including Assault Rifle -- Outside Obama Event

all you need is a cherrybomb to go off to get people to think their lives are in imminent danger. hamas vs. fatah, transported to the US.

Ya gotta be kidding me. Can you imagine this four years ago? Hey, maybe things are getting better!

Not.

I've been following this all day and have been believing that this black guy was another right-wing whacko plant, like that St. Louis guy.

Now a different thought is starting to creep into my mind - what if he is actually a lefty who is trying to make the statement to the righties "you got guns...we got guns...you got big guns...we got big guns".

Watching the video of him talking to that 'reporter' (who, I believe, was also packing heat), this black guy didn't look crazed. CNN video clip could not pick up this guy's statements to the 'reporter'...but I'd love to hear what he was saying.

I'm all for the second amendment, but I can't take a weapon to a rock concert. Tell me again why I can take one for a health forum that POTUS is attending???

Wow... Add Arizona to the wacko state list... Meanwhile I work diligently to keep Missouri off that list.

Did any of the armed individuals break any laws? No? Then we need to STFU.

They are engaging in perfectly legal activity for the explicit purpose of causing left wingers to wring their hands.

If we want to work to change the laws, that's fine. I'm all for more stringent gun control laws.

But for now, if the law says you can carry, you can carry. End of story.

Wasn't a constant right-wing meme just a few years ago that the Left was unhinged because it was just so wildly angry all the time and hateful of the President?!?

The Left was upset (although not unhinged) because an illegal war and occupation was ordered that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths, although the protests were not physically threatening in nature.

The only deaths now are those of imaginary grandmas in some hypothetical socialist dystopian future, but the guns are out as if the right is literally fighting for their lives.

A little common sense goes a long way...

You don't smoke while filling your gas tank, and you don't bring a gun to a volatile political event.

"..one man was arrested for having a gun hidden in his car after the Secret Service found him at Portsmouth High School hours before Obama arrived carrying a pocketknife."

And here I'd thought Obama had brought a sword to the health care gunfight.

Can you imagine for a second what would have happened if 4 Hispanics, 4 African Americans and 4 Arab Americans had gone to a Bush event packing heat, including an AR-15.

They'd be dead.

This is going to make it very difficult for the Secret Service to protect Obama. If the wingers can get hundreds in the crowds to carry guns, then plenty of them will have the chance to assassinate Obama. Somebody will.

There are plenty on the right who want Obama dead. This is a big step toward that. And at the least they know they are frightening us. They are frightening me.

I don't condone gun violence and think there are too many "gun rights" in the US.

As an African American though, I have a fantasy of how these guys would react if a couple of guys from 'the hood' showed up with THEIR 9mm guns. But some one or some people would get killed and I'm not for that.

Put 'em all in "Second Ammendment Zones."

Just another way for the 'loyal opposition' to distract the country from the issue at hand, health care reform. Once you show up at a Presidential town hall loaded for bear, you absolutely know in advance that you will not be permitted to gain entrance to the event, that you will be turned away, and that you can expect to later appear on the evening local Fox gabfest to boast about your 2nd amendment rights. Watch as the health care ball gets dropped and keeps rolling away from the tasks at hand. More opposition genious probably sent to these people beforehand along with their talkingpoints for the day.

Just another way for the 'loyal opposition' to distract the country from the issue at hand, health care reform. Once you show up at a Presidential town hall loaded for bear, you absolutely know in advance that you will not be permitted to gain entrance to the event, that you will be turned away, and that you can expect to later appear on the evening local Fox gabfest to boast about your 2nd amendment rights. Watch as the health care ball gets dropped and keeps rolling away from the tasks at hand. More opposition genious probably sent to these people beforehand along with their talkingpoints for the day.

I think we shouldn't ignore the possibility that these people were carrying guns simply because they wanted to get on TV. "It worked for the guy in NH so it's bound to work for me" is the line of thinking. Only this time, there were too many of them and the AR-15 guy got the coveted media frenzy. The fame culture demands more and more outrageous activity and the ante has been upped. I think we should just deny them the public platform they crave and let the Secret Service handle it.

The difference between rights and responsibilities is perfect illustrated here; as well as the difference between child/ adult, and fear/rational.

These idiots have the right but act irresponsible. Attention seeking children rather than respectful adults. Functioning on an irrational fear.

I wonder what these idiots are costing us in the extra security detail by the risk they cause? I wonder if they think about- here in the land of Columbine and Oklahoma City- who they may inspire, and to what ends? Right wing hate speech precipitated Dr. Tiller's death.

No doubt these idiots were identified, and I like the notion of these morons centered in the cross hairs of the hidden rooftop Secret Service agents rifle, just in case.