Carrying Guns To Town Hall Meetings

This is not an argument regarding whether or not citizens should be allowed to carry concealed weapons or not... however, I do find it intriguing that people have started bringing guns to Town hall meetings.

I find it even more intriguing that MSNBC has aired video of an anti-Obama protester who is carrying a non concealed gun to a public event.

From MSNBC:

Outside the event where President Obama will conduct his town hall, there is an anti-Obama protestor with a gun -- a pistol strapped to his lower leg.

The local police chief said it's legal for the man to have a registered handgun -- as long as it is not concealed. What's more, he is on private property, a church yard, which has given him permission to be there.

The loophole is, in New Hampsire, the church has given him permission to be there with his gun and he is within his rights to do so.

You would think, that in this day and age, crazed gun fanatics who are anti-Obama would not be allowed to be near the President of the united States! This is absurd!

How come these guys were not carrying guns to Bush Town Hall meetings and would they have been allowed to? Can you imagine a guy with a "Bush is a nazi" shirt being allowed to carry a gun while Bush was speaking at Town Hall event? I don't think he would be allowed to, so why are these people allowed to carry guns to public events like this?

What purpose does bringing a gun to a Town Hall meeting serve? Why would anyone need a gun at a Town Hall meeting?

It is intimidation, nothing more. No citizen needs firearms at public Town Hall meetings. The people encouraging this sort of violent intimidation are the people who want guns to be allowed to be carried by students in schools, in churches, and parks, everywhere.

It is hard to find reasoning behind this sort of thing, yet somehow it continues... America is just a word, but I use it.

I am not here to debate whether or not carrying a gun is legal, it most certainly is... however, you'd think when it comes to the safety of the president of the United States, there would be some kind of law on the books to stop people like this from getting within firing range.

What's next? More people carrying guns because cops cannot disarm them?

More and more people will bring guns to Town Hall meetings.

Crazy place that America....

Online Gun Seller Sold Weapons To Multiple Killers

Could this guy be any more delusional?

His company has sold guns online to more than one person who then used them to kill innocent people, and his reply? We need to sell more guns online. LOL

MADISON, Wis. — An online weapons dealer who sold a gun or accessories to three mass killers, including a man who opened fire at a Pittsburgh-area health club this week, said Friday that any of the shooters could have just as easily found what they wanted at a Wal-Mart or another store.

Eric Thompson, whose company TGSCOM Inc. last year sold an empty Glock 9 mm magazine and magazine loading apparatus to George Sodini, the man who shot up a Collier Township, Pa., health club on Tuesday, said the sale was legal and his company did nothing wrong.

Selling weapons online must make some quite rich from the looks of things. In fact, real gun stores are said to be losing millions to "online gun dealers." So you know they are selling a lot of guns!

Thompson's company, which is based in Green Bay and employs about 40 people, also sold a gun or accessories to the shooters in the Virginia Tech and Northern Illinois University attacks.

Seung-Hui Cho used a .22-caliber handgun bought from TGSCOM in his attack at Virginia Tech in April 2007, in which 32 people were killed. Stephen Kazmierczak, who killed five people in an NIU classroom before killing himself in February 2008, bought two empty 9 mm Glock magazines and a Glock holster through a TGSCOM site.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms doesn't keep statistics on online gun sales, but Thompson said online sales are taking business away from stores. Thompson declined to say how much the company made in sales last year, but said it was "in the millions of dollars."

He also sold the Virginia tech killer his gun! Seems this is the hot spot for killers to buy their weapons online!

It is clear this guy just wants to sell more guns and in fact, tries to get guns to be allowed in school! I don't want people walking around a college campus with concealed guns, do you? These gun freaks will stop at nothing to sell weapons and have them in our schools. He sold the killer the guns and then wants to play the victim's friend and sell more guns to them!

Thompson visited the Virginia Tech campus after the attack to support a local chapter of Students for Concealed Carry on Campus. And after the NIU attack, he said the Web site Kazmierczak visited saw a spike in traffic.

These guys use loopholes and the internet to sell guns...

Federal law prevents the public from purchasing a handgun in any state but their own. People can purchase long guns, such as rifles, in border states. Firearms dealers, however, can transfer weapons to one another across state lines.

And his desire to sell weapons seems to be at the front of his defense instead of any kind of social responsibility for arming killers.

Thompson said attacks like Tuesday's underscore the need for people to protect themselves because police can't respond in time to crises, he said.

Denial at it's best.