The
weather was as changeable as the gun haters' rhetoric. It started
cloudy, then the sun came out, then it rained. First, they said they
want to ban so-called assault weapons, then they said they don't want
to take our guns. Not once did they express a concern for liberty,
the most precious value. So it went in Morrisville, PA on May 11,
2013 at the Pre-Mother’s
Day March against Gun Violence.
Hear
their own terrible words:
In
a speech rife with hypocrisy one speaker claimed she was a little
afraid of the counter-protesters carrying guns. It didn't occur to
her to think of our fears. There is a reason we stayed in
Pennsylvania. We knew we couldn't go into Trenton, New Jersey (where
their rally started) with our guns. The police would have arrested
us. Even in Morrisville the township threatened to arrest open
carriers. We ignored those threats and they backed down. Yet somehow
the gun haters saw themselves as being threatened. The fear was
totally irrational. The open carriers would have protected them had a
criminal tried to harm them. Meanwhile, it is they, the gun haters,
that want to send armed law enforcement officers after gun owners. Go
figure.
In
his speech Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell made the point
that the National Rifle Association
has endorsed background checks in the past. He also emphasized that
former President Ronald Reagan was an advocate of gun control and
that A rated Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) was one of the authors of the
recently failed background check bill. Gun rights advocates should
take note and realize that the Republican Party is not going to
protect you from the gun haters.
Most
of the rest of what the gun haters said was just appeals to emotion.
Of course, it is difficult to think clearly when talking about loved
ones killed, but the truth is that that is exactly when clear
thinking is most needed. Going after our gun rights may seem like the
quickest solution to the gun violence problem but it is not. It will
only make things worse. I ask the gun haters to join us in calling
for a real solution to the problem while leaving our gun rights
intact. Support Law
Enforcement Against Prohibition's call to end the drug war. For an in depth explanation of why we have the violence that we do and what to do about it please read, "Progressivism’s Violent World".
Mainstream
media coverage of the event, “Pro
and anti-gun groups rally in Morrisville”
mentions the canceled and moved Little League Baseball games.
Concerned Gun Owners of Bucks County,
the group organizing the counter-protest, asked the gun haters to
reschedule their rally out of respect for the young baseball players
but, sadly, they refused.
This video has all the speakers from the pro-gun rally held before the gun grabbers crossed the bridge from Trenton, NJ:
Below are pictures of many of the firearms carried at the rally. Please note that no one was shot that day:
This video has all the speakers from the pro-gun rally held before the gun grabbers crossed the bridge from Trenton, NJ:
Below are pictures of many of the firearms carried at the rally. Please note that no one was shot that day:
Pictures
of pro-gun rights signs:
Pictures
of the gun haters:
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| In fairness, this picture has both gun haters and gun rights people. |
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