Comments on: Dave Kopel Elaborates His Views on Armed Protests

By: MRAZ45

MRAZ45 — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:26:05 +0000

Why do many of you still want to “reach across the aisle” and try to reason with liberals? The greatest oxymoron of our era is the phrase “liberal thought.” If they do not see forceful resistance (this does not mean shooting yet), they will never respect you and your guns, or any of your other rights either. Quit trying to reason with them. They don’t respect you or your freedoms. They only want to control you. I am glad to see freedom-loving Americans highly upset at tea parties and town halls, calling their congressmen and telling them what they think. In the past few months the liberals have gotten their hands on the auto and banking industries, ruined the housing market, attempted to control your health care and done everything they could to ruin the economy. Our leaders have apologized to our enemies and introduced a bill to even control the internet when it suits them. I’m on your side, really, but quit trying to appease the “enemy.” Have a nice day. I’m off to the range while you guys get squeamish about what liberals think.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:53:01 +0000

I wouldn’t say I’m embracing it. I don’t think it would work all that well either. But it would be different.

By: Chris Bennett

Chris Bennett — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:36:19 +0000

I don’t understand your embracing disobedience against the DC Law, yet not embracing disobedience against social ‘norms’.

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 03:24:05 +0000

“I think that we might gather more sympathy for the cause by open carrying a revolver and lever action brush gun or an old WW2 surplus garand or a pump action shot gun.”

Chris, I don’t know how useful that would be. Those inclined to crap their pants probably still would. If we are going to go in that direction we should go all the way. I’ll admit I could be the wrong person to ask, as I would have preferred Charlton Heston hoisting a S&W model 76 for the cold dead hands speech instead of a flintlock.

By: MicroBalrog

MicroBalrog — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 02:16:49 +0000

>Did I say that?

Consider W. Kostrick. He is an FSP member. Of course he wants to promote his cause, which is radical libertarianism.

By carrying openly to a rally he got on TV and managed to speak, cogently and coherently, about his topics. Paleolibertarianism rarely gets any decent press, and so those 8 minutes of TV time were priceless. And he also managed to be an ambassador for open carry while doing so.

I think he succeeded.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:45:19 +0000

Nothing wrong with it legally or morally. But if the goal was to try to persuade the public, or even try to get a message out about a cause, it seems like an ineffective technique to me. The media was entirely distracted by the gun, and I doubt the actual message got out to the public. If anything, the message they wanted to get out to the public was actually gotten out by the White House, which was surprising.

By: Roberta X

Roberta X — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 01:42:24 +0000

There’s something wrong with legally carrying a scary black poodleshooter?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:21:14 +0000

Did I say that?

By: MicroBalrog

MicroBalrog — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 21:30:57 +0000

There’s something wrong with paleolibertarianism now?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 14:27:16 +0000

I don’t think the type of rifle really matters. Someone carrying a rifle slung in an urban area is very unusual, even in Arizona. Doesn’t matter too much what type of rifle it is.