People Bring Assault Weapons To Obama Event (Congress, Iraq, party)

[meson]

Open carry laws or not what are these people trying to prove? I'm glad the Secret Service is keeping a VERY close eye on them.

From CNN: Multiple People Carry Assault Weapons/Pistol To President Obama's VFW Event In Phoenix, Arizona - 08/17/09

[hotair2]

No. They are on government assistance.

[Ceece]

Talk all you want about "freedom" but I'm pretty sure this would not have been tolorated in the past.

[wdavid002]

So..the black guy seems to be on the side of the pro-Obama people, even though the guy with the striped tie is trying to down play it..and trying to focus on the other guy who was anti-reform..what a bunch of hypocrites..CNN should we expect anything different...

[Wapasha]

Originally Posted by meson

Open carry laws or not what are these people trying to prove? I'm glad the Secret Service is keeping a VERY close eye on them.

From CNN: Multiple People Carry Assault Weapons/Pistol To President Obama's VFW Event In Phoenix, Arizona - 08/17/09

Are we sure this is not another congressman Dingell staff member, like the one who was caught carrying the "0bama is Hitler" poster, and an hour later was passing out Dingell's pro-0bamaCare fliers?

[delusianne]

Originally Posted by wdavid002

So..the black guy seems to be on the side of the pro-Obama people, even though the guy with the striped tie is trying to down play it..and trying to focus on the other guy who was anti-reform..what a bunch of hypocrites..CNN should we expect anything different...

Um, he had to describe the "anti-reform" (snicker) guy, since the anti-reform guy wasnt on video. See?

[nat_at772]

Originally Posted by wdavid002

Sure..assault weapons are ok..but throw one shoe and everybody gets their panties twisted...

didn't he throw two shoes?

[zz4guy]

I hope people realize what a great country this is and the many freedoms we enjoy that 99% of the rest of the world can only dream about.

[meson]

So does anybody know what these idiots are trying to prove, anybody see crap like this at other presidents events, why now?

[subsound]

There goes the descent into bad politics. Once it's okay for people start taking weapons to intimidate others there it's not going to be much of a stretch for some one to fire off a few rounds to do the same once the sight no longer intimidates people. What one party says is okay for their party to do in the debate will soon come around and have the same thing done by the opposition, rant and scream as one may turn about is fair play.

Once we let violence and intimidation into the political process we become like anyone else that does it, and I think that's the whole thing we have been trying to prevent in the Iraq elections.