We need to normalize the sight of female breasts again. Just why should we hide them away? Is it something to be ashamed of?”

Two can play that game: We need to normalize the sight of black people walking down the street. Just why should they be hidden away? Is it something to be ashamed of?

After all, a black man walking down the street used to really “scare the white people”, it was just as threatening to some as carrying a gun is to some now. And, some black people actually did threaten and attack people. So hide them away, until the gentle-folk come around to accepting them. You know, there were well-intended anti-racists who made just that argument, back in the day. I can’t remember their names, because nobody can, anymore.

Hiding your face completely is not “putting a good face” on the argument, it is conceding the argument. All that is left is begging for privilege.

And snowflake, think twice before going off on “this isn’t racism, and the comparison is insulting…” For starters, remember what is at the root of a lot of the origins of gun control.

Maybe what it will take is somebody bringing their AR-15 onto a city bus, and refusing to move to the back.

These aren’t people hostile to gun rights, but they think this shit is fucking crazy. When you lose the middle, you lose. It doesn’t change anyone’s mind about gun owners in a good way.

So anytime some leftist whackjob does something do you ask them that question? You’re making the argument the guy’s nuts. How about when some “poor misunderstood minority” commits a crime do you ask them if they support it? How about the panthers at the polling place? You ask them about THAT?

What middle? The apathetic folks who are now turning on this chicagoist manifesto? Those folks? Instead of putting up crap bashing the dude you should be showing why what he did was fully within the law and how nothing was wrong with it. We don’t need another apology tour, obomber’s got that covered.

AR-15 was unloaded, with a loaded mag in pocket.

There where 5 people open carrying as a group. They contacted the police the night before and had a police liaison with them at the protest.

Here is a vid they shot:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63GiXzpfGhA

I just don’t see it that way. I even had people in work this morning confronting me with “Do you support stuff like this.”

These aren’t people hostile to gun rights, but they think this shit is fucking crazy. When you lose the middle, you lose. It doesn’t change anyone’s mind about gun owners in a good way.

But either way, the point is how to convince people to support, or at least not oppose your cause. Baring breasts is about as effective a way to support women’s rights as baring guns is to support gun rights. As a method of activism I think both are a bad idea.

That’s not to say I think open carry should be illegal. I think it ought to remain legal, and be legalized in areas where it’s currently illegal. But I think it’s ineffective when used as activism.

Poor metaphor for the illustration.

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