If you act like a bunch of kooks, you will be treated like a bunch of kooks.mamabearCali wrote:03Lightningrocks wrote:Just for the record, this thread is not about how one feels about open carry. The topic was about how one feels about "in your face" tactics by a very small but very vocal minority of OC proponents. Somehow it is being twisted to discuss how one feels about OC and how prevalent it is or will be.
They are being pushed into making ridiculous in your face tactics due to the fact that they are dismissed by gun owners and CHLers on the whole. If they had not been dismissed as kooks and dissed by Internet memes as above, perhaps they would have been able to be more circumspect. People ignored, who desire the freedoms they have been promised, will tend towards more and more drastic action.
Is it wise? Probably not. But they have been patted on the head and told to sit down and shut it for years. So after being polite and getting no where they are trying a new tactic. Can you blame them? I don't.
Now is it smart to go this way, maybe not, but the liberals get their way much of the time by screaming their heads off.
Say what you like. They care about freedom. Even if their tactics are off, they are at least trying to effect change.
How many marches have there been without carrying and having arrests?
How many write in campaign and other lobbying efforts?
The OC method of attempting to influence appropirate legislation is at best blurred, at worst incoherent.