SnarkyBytes

Via American Power:

Open carry sure is helpful when you’re dressing to beat the heat!

Remember, the side with the protest babes always wins.

It’s been a long time coming, and I’m not the first to say it, but I think Sebastian is doing more harm than good to 2nd amendment activism. With todays post against open carry, he’s become the next Zumbo.

Open carry activists have a lot of energy, and they are willing to show up, and that alone puts them ahead of 98% of gun owners. But I think the open carry shit is distracting, and is taking away from what otherwise would be amazingly effective activism. Instead of having media stories about gun owners opposing lost and stolen, you have media stories about people showing up openly armed.

No. What’s distracting is supposed 2nd Amendment “activists” only supporting rights when it suits their agenda. The PFOA showed up, calmly presented their side and the Scranton council, realizing their law might violate state law, tabled the ordinance. That is NOTHING but a win for our side.

That the win was buried in a media article with the headline “Firearms display at meeting concerns city council, public” is immaterial. OMG! The media is anti-gun!

Thing is, the article wasn’t that bad. It even ended on a positive note and SURPRISE! nothing happened. The PFOA won, the public saw a bunch of armed citizens exercising their rights and no one got hurt. I see that as nothing but a huge win.

Rights are rights all the time, Sebastian. Not just when they’re convenient to you. If you can’t accept that then you need to hang up the blog and stop pretending to be a 2nd Amendment activist.

I was going to write a post about Meleanie’s tragic death but Breda did it so much better, just go there.

This morning White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said that legal guns are OK at protest events.

Armed men seen mixing with protesters outside recent events held by President Obama acted within the law, the White House said Tuesday, attempting to allay fears of a security threat.

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary, said people are entitled to carry weapons outside such events if local laws allow it. “There are laws that govern firearms that are done state or locally,” he said. “Those laws don’t change when the president comes to your state or locality.”

Well, they are legal. I’m glad to see the Obama administration showing signs of common sense for a change.

Paul Helmke is a sad panda this morning (along with some gun bloggers that wound up on the same side as the Bradys.)

Sad Panda icon shamelessly stolen from Robb Allen.

Breda and the guy who talks too much will be talking about dealing with police while open carrying.

Tonight Caleb and I will be speaking with a young man who knows first hand what happens when you open carry and are met by uninformed law enforcement. Lucky for us, he was able to record audio of the entire incident – tune in tonight to hear the tape!

Sounds like it will be another great show.

Tune in at 8:00 CDT and listen live here.

He’s in favor of it.

And makes a good point for the “blood in the streets” crowd.

Case(s) in point: Vermont has NO LAWS whatsoever regulating the carry of firearms, neither does Alaska. Citizens can open carry in those states without any interference by way of the Government — at all.

When was the last time you heard of multiple street-corner gunfights in either of those two states?

In addition, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota, Arizona, New Mexico, Kentucky, West Virgina and Virginia already allow the open carry of firearms with neither permit nor licence required to do so.

I don’t know about y’all, but when it comes to running gun battles on street corners, South Dakota and Wyoming aren’t the first places that comes to mind.

Most states already allow some form of open carry. Texas is one of only six states that doesn’t.

Head over to OpenCarry.org for more info. (There’s a link on the sidebar too.)

From OpenCarry.org, the radio spots currently playing in Texas:

5 second spot

15 second spot

Cowtown Cop has some good words on open carry.

Gov. Rick Perry supports the Texas open carry bill.

I’ve put a link to opencarry.org on the sidebar.

Texas is only one of six states that don’t allow ANY form of open carry. The anti-gun people trotting out the wild west argument don’t have a leg to stand on with 44 other states allowing some form or open carry without having their streets awash in blood.