I love seeing all the known liberty activists getting their recent media attention. From FreeKeene to the Free State Project.

Most of the liberty activists in each area know each other, because it's such a small community. Even the ones in New Hampshire read http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/ and know a lot of what goes on in Pheonix.

More from the NH activists: http://www.videosift.com/video/City-Councilor-Won-t-Answer-Questions-at-Townhall-Meeting

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I really don't like guys like the one being interviewed here. It's great that he wants to protect the right to bear arms, and that he cleared things with the police before hand and maintained a good relationship with them. I'm all for that. I am against the complete lack of common sense, and sudden disjoint with the extent of this stunt.

There's a now old saying, Don't bring a gun to a knife fight. It seems to me that common sense would extend that to don't bring an assault rifle to a peaceful anti-government protest.

The right to peaceful assembly and the right to bear arms does not make bearing arms at a peaceful assembly a wise way of demonstrating those rights. It's a good way to spin the peaceful assembly into a tragedy. It's only after the peaceful assembly gets beaten down that you come back and hold an assembly with the assault rifle in hand.

Erm, I believe the saying is, "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight." This would be common sense...because, guns....have you know...a longer range than knives, under most conditions.

>> ^Tree:
Erm, I believe the saying is, "Don't bring a knife to a gun fight." This would be common sense...because, guns....have you know...a longer range than knives, under most conditions.


I've heard it used both ways. In regards to not bringing a gun to a knife fight it's about not escalating the situation, which seemed to fit this situation rather closely.

>> ^bcglorf:
I've heard it used both ways. In regards to not bringing a gun to a knife fight it's about not escalating the situation, which seemed to fit this situation rather closely.


Where have you heard it used other than "Don't bring a knife to a gunfight"?

More unintelligible rambling.

>> ^vaporlock:
More unintelligible rambling.


0k i'l try 2 tone it down in the futr 4 those that have trbl with eng

That is so wrong in so many ways.

Believe me, that kind of behavior is not helping the gun lobby one jot.

If I were the NRA I'd rip those people a new asshole. But the NRA is headed by people who thought it was a good idea to hold a gun rally in the heart of Denver right after the Columbine shootings, so....

This disturbs me because of all the things that I think a gun owner should posses, it's good judgment, and this kind of behavior is clearly flying in the face of that prerequisite.

If you imagine guns are home to boogieman that will possess you to go on a shooting rampage, then yes, bringing guns to a peaceful demonstration shows bad judgment.

Your statements say nothing of the intent of the armed protesters - you assert that they wanted to intimidate, but you only reveal your own irrational fear of guns.

I'm all for protecting your rights as a citizen. I can even (with some caveats) see the logic of bringing a point across by exercising that right in a very public fashion. But where were these people when their right to privacy was taken away, or when they lost habeas corpus with only a penstroke?