[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos

Maybe this has been covered, but it seems just plain weird to me that these people would choose to exercise their rights to strut around with guns at an event that doesn't have anything to do with gun control.

Obama was in there talking to veterans about I don't know what, but it wasn't about gun control. If it was about gun control then it would make some sort of sense if protesters outside decided to bring their guns as a symbolic protest.

The message I get from the guy with the gun is "I don't like the President and I have a machine gun. Think of that what you will".

Now sure, this guy has a right to carry that machine gun, but it seems like an inappropriate accessory, given the setting.

And I get all the bla bla bla about the guy's rights and all that stuff but there is a line that shouldn't have to be drawn.

It's perfectly legal for me to carry a hockey stick wherever I want to go but if I take that hockey stick into the parent/teacher interview and listen to some law-school dropout bitch of a teacher tell me that my son is "disruptive" and "needs more support at home", she would feel threatened by me and and call the cops again.

What's wrong with a hockey stick? Nothing. It's legal. It's in the Declaration of Constitution, but it can still, apparently, be dangerous.

Early in the thread it was suggested that this fellow may have been making a statement about the Arizona law. An attempt to show how ridiculous this stuff can be and still be legal. I think that's more plausible than your assumption, esepcially given the picture I saw.