Armed Protest

[GMDino]

(01-14-2021, 12:29 PM)BmorePat87 Wrote: There's a lot of reasons why people own and carry guns. Part of that group includes people who have irrational fears and insecurities. I think that's a lot of crossover between that subset and those who engage in armed protest. 

Whether it's insecurities that they feel they have to make up for with a show of force or a fear of [insert boogieman they fear here] taking something from them, they are prepared to use force.

The bold was my first thought about it.  Not everyone who open carries has s small penis and wants to look tough. 

But all seriousness aside when they SAY they are bringing their weapons because they are going a "war" or "battle" it sure makes it hard to defend them.  That's what happened on 1/6.

Just like the guys who go in groups to a business with guns slightly bigger than probably would be needed for "self defense" just to flaunt the open carry laws.  You don't have to a jerk about it but yeah, it's legal.

You can and you should are sometimes two very different things.  Usually that difference is based on intent.

WI boy is a good example.  He brought a gun to another state to "defend" something he knew nothing about and ended up killing two people in self-defense.  Can he do that (ignoring the guns being owned illegally), sure.  Should he do that.  Probably not as he already had intent to use the gun to "defend" himself somewhere were he shouldn't have been.