Hundreds of gun rights advocates rally at State House

"Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments."

 

Just sent my join request

 

was a great turnout. well behaved, very respectful. families, young people, even some good looking women

no camo or weird outfits, no one with a gun strapped to their back.

just wish they had better PA system !

4 or 5 bike cops. no issues. like Hush said they just kept the traffic moving.

thanks to all in attendance and especially those that came from the far western part of the state !

 

As did I. While not a sworn MA officer yet, I would like to give my support. If that DQs me from the group, that's fine, I still support it.

162 officers and counting; good to see.

 

I'm not a FB user but am interested in what the group is,

Also
GOAL Co-Sponsoring Pro 2A Rally - January 27, 2013 - N. Brookfield MA.
Please see the official notification below from Red Zone Tactical in N. Brookfield MA.
HEAR YE… HEAR YE…
Tired of the government running rough shod over your rights?
Believe in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
Feel it is time to join others who feel the same way?
Like the idea that if you want to own a particular firearm, you can, because this is America?
Then stop moaning about it, stop tweeting how ticked off you are and stop Facebooking your disappointment, and come do something about it.
We are holding the “LET FREEDOM RING” rally on January27th, at the North Brookfield town common.
We have speakers from the Libertarian party, the Tea Party, Red Pill Politics, and the Gun Owners Action League.
Our voice cannot and will not be heard one at a time. We need a show of force that we will not sit idly by while our rights and freedoms are trampled upon by our self serving government and the puppet masters at the United Nations.
Tell all who feel the same way. Make this a happening. Don’t sit at home because it’s the easy thing to do, be a part of taking back what is ours to begin with. WE THE PEOPLE!
A few hundred people doesn’t even make the papers...A few thousand will be seen all over the internet.
Bring a sticker proclaiming your freedoms and place it on the WALL OF FREEDOM. LET’S BE HEARD…. BE STRONG…. BE LOUD…. BE AMERICAN
Rain or shine event starting at 1:00 pm, January 27th, 2013, North Brookfield Town Common Would you like an opportunity to speak, or have an organization that you would like represented? Contact us at [email protected] PEACE

 

Very happy to see some familiar names and faces in the group!
Just clicked on the request to be added. If you need my creds, or to confirm the name, send me a PM here.

 

Read Justice Thomas' concurrence in the McDonald v. Chicago case. He goes over this whole history in great detail.

 

VT Rally helped there

Baruth withdraws proposed assault weapons ban, but gun-control ...
www.vermontpressbureau.com/baruth-withdraws-proposed-assault-w...
8 hours ago - Reported first by Green Mountain Daily's Ed Garcia and confirmed first by Paul Heintz at Seven Days, Sen. Philip Baruth says he'll withdraw a proposed ban on ...

 

VT is on my short list of exile destinations, only behind NH. If they promise to leave me and mine alone, and their only condition is that I must wear birkenstocks, then they better have a size 14 ready.

 

Just a heads up

Looks like the group that is sponsoring the Feb 8th march may be a bit extreme and may push the event offtrack by looking more like a militia group than a Pro 2A group.

There is an event in N. Brookfield on Jan 27th that is sponsored by Goal that I think will be more on track

 

HUSH said... "Im surprised the left hasn't tried to infiltrate instigators to grab attention."
In my humble opinion, I think that if they do "infiltrate instigators", then they could trip and bang their head.... 300 times. Hmmm. did I just say that? Naw..

 

Jeezus I hope not. The Mothers/daughters/sisters, Legal Immigrants, Clergy, Teachers, and others are coming out in droves now. More mainstream "silent majority" types are fleshing out the crowds and being interviewed. We really DON'T need more than one person showing up dressed in militia/swat/posse/zombie-killer garb for the media to do close ups and loop-reel repeats of...

The North Brookfield event looks good, however, the media coverage may be light........

 

I really need to quote that speech from the educated Chinese immigrant, and post it on fb to all my libtard, obama loving zombies!

 

Yep. They are a totally different group of people. To be honest I am a little concerned how they are going to make the rest of the gun owners look.

Be advised.

 

The past Monday I decided to visit the Minuteman Park in Lexington and pay tribute to Captain John Parker and his fellow minutemen. A thought came to my mind, that the founding fathers of the United States and Chairman Mao had one thing in common: they all realized that guns are important political instruments. Their similarities, however, ended there:

Chairman Mao wrote: ‘Political power grows out of barrel of a gun’, and he dictated: ‘The party shall command the gun’. James Madison and his compatriots, however, believing that the power of the state is derived from the consent of the governed, ratified that ‘the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’.

23 years ago, I was a college freshman exercising my freedom of speech and assembly in Tian’anmen Square, much like we are doing here today. We grew frustrated by the restriction of personal freedoms and the corrupted Chinese government, and we thought peaceful protest would make the country better. Our young passion and patriotism was crushed by hails of full metal jackets out of AK47’s. (Some AK purists here would argue they were really type 56’s). We could not fight back, because we did not have an inch of iron in our hands, to borrow a Chinese expression: we were unarmed.

Gun owners like us often say: the Second Amendment is the protector against a tyrannical government. Some may argument that a man with a rifle is no match to the military machines of today, so such beliefs are no longer relevant. However, 20 million peaceful Beijing citizens in 1989, sure wished that they had a few million rifles in their hands!

Freedom is not free. Liberty has costs. We recognize that in this free society, criminals or mentally deranged could get weapons and murder the innocents. The answer, however, is not to disarm the law abiding citizens. Not only criminals and the deranged will violate the laws anyway, but more importantly, when a government turns criminal, when a government turns deranged, the body count will not be five, ten or twenty, but hundreds, like in Tian’anmen Square, or millions, counted in the 90-year history of the Chinese Communist Party.

Our constitutional republic may look fuzzy and loving today (if you think so, I’ve got a TSA agent you should meet), but keep in mind that absolute power corrupts absolutely! And when a government has monopoly on guns, it has absolute power!

Do you know that the Chinese Constitution guarantees almost all the nice things we have here? It is written that Chinese citizens enjoy freedom of speech and religion, they have human and property rights, and that such rights cannot be taken away without due process of the law. And do you know what? Chinese people do not have the right to keep and bear arms. I assure you all those nice guarantees, are not worth the paper they are printed on, because when the government has all the guns, they have all the rights.

I was not born a citizen of the United States, I was naturalized in 2007. In 2008, I became a proud gun owner. To me, a rifle is not for sporting or hunting, it is an instrument of freedom. It guarantees that I cannot be coerced, that I have free will, and that I am a free man.

Now suppose the 20 million Beijing citizens had had a few million rifles, how many rounds should they have been ALLOWED to load into their magazines? 10? 7? How about 3?

Never, never, never give up the fight, my friends. It may be a small step that you give up your rifle, or a 30-round magazine, but it will be a giant leap in the destruction of this great republic.

In closing I will quote the words of Captain John Parker: "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war, let it begin here."

 

Some one should file a piece of troll legislation requiring liability insurance for slander, and libel before people can exercise their 1st amendment rights to put this in perspective.

 

Look at that media bias; "legistlation to reduce gun violence". Does anyone with half a brain actually believe some piece of paper is going to do anything to stop the criminal or insane? Why can't they call the legislation what it really is: legislation to reduce or eliminate the number of guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens.