Loaded
By Michael J.W. Stickings
So a guy -- an anti-Obama Ron Paul supporter with a penchant for right-wing politics -- brings a gun to a health-care town-hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one at which Obama himself is speaking. Or, rather, he brings it to the protest outside the venue, first on the sidewalk, which is public property, then on the private property of a nearby church, which apparently has given him permission. It is apparently legal for him to be carrying a weapon, but, thankfully, the Secret Service keeps a close eye on him.
This is all rather worrying, and even a staunch conservative like Allahpundit dismisses Second Amendment claims and thinks it was a bad idea to bring a gun to such an event, especially with the president in attendance: "having a right doesn't mean you're obliged to exercise it, particularly in circumstances where it would be provocative to do so."
And provocative it was. Allahpundit continues: "the number of daily threats against Obama is already four times the number Bush faced. Every pair of eyes diverted to watch this tool make his point about liberty is a pair that's not watching the rest of the crowd."
Do not think for a moment that this wacko is the lone exception. And do not think that no one would ever cross the line and start firing.
So a guy -- an anti-Obama Ron Paul supporter with a penchant for right-wing politics -- brings a gun to a health-care town-hall in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, one at which Obama himself is speaking. Or, rather, he brings it to the protest outside the venue, first on the sidewalk, which is public property, then on the private property of a nearby church, which apparently has given him permission. It is apparently legal for him to be carrying a weapon, but, thankfully, the Secret Service keeps a close eye on him.
This is all rather worrying, and even a staunch conservative like Allahpundit dismisses Second Amendment claims and thinks it was a bad idea to bring a gun to such an event, especially with the president in attendance: "having a right doesn't mean you're obliged to exercise it, particularly in circumstances where it would be provocative to do so."
And provocative it was. Allahpundit continues: "the number of daily threats against Obama is already four times the number Bush faced. Every pair of eyes diverted to watch this tool make his point about liberty is a pair that's not watching the rest of the crowd."
Do not think for a moment that this wacko is the lone exception. And do not think that no one would ever cross the line and start firing.
Labels: Barack Obama, health care reform
posted by Michael J.W. Stickings at
2:02 AM
2 Comments:
Nor should the SS' resolve to protect Obama be taken for granted. This is at least the second known incident of the SS providing much more lax security to Obama than it would provide to a Republican president. The first incident was the time the SS decided not to conduct weapons searches of campaign rally attendees in Dallas, of all places. Law enforcement is an overwhelmingly Republican profession and the probability of elements of the SS being sympathetic to the teabagger movement is decidedly non zero.
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Anonymous, at 2:51 AM
I would like to think that you're wrong, Anonymous, but I fear that you're onto something here. And it is indeed worrying.
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Michael J.W. Stickings, at 3:05 AM
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