Two questions about the MI protestors

[Guvnah]

@Borgia_dude

I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.

And yet the right to do so is not dependent on whether or not you can think of a reason.

To be sure, I also can think of no reason why a citizen should (or at least I should) be carrying a weapon on the streets, which is why I never have. Someone else’s right to carry something is not subject to my own reasons.

[johnrandolph]

@Borgia_dude

@tnt

@conan

Because they can.

Side note:

When the Black Panthers legally did this, reagan and teh CA legislator immediately passed a law forbidding it.

The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons | HISTORY

I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.

Imagination that limited is it?

[WuWei]

@WCD9973

Sure. I would have been talking about them anyway. Doesnt bring them any closer to their goals.

Would you rather be right or would you rather win?

You can claim that.

Right.

[Guvnah]

@Scratch

Of course not…But why would one feel the need to carry around a weapon like that?

I still haven’t seen pics of anyone carrying guns. Or actual “gunmen”.

Of course, I’ve only gotten half way through the thread, so maybe someone found something by now.

[WuWei]

@Borgia_dude

I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.

Can you think of a reason why on the street today a citizen shouldn’t be carrying loaded weapons?

[MidwestIndy]

For all the good the “protesting” did in MI

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/michigan-judge-sides-governor-lawsuit-over-coronavirus-shelter-150552120--abc-news-topstories.html

Court says the governor’s order stays in place.

[Guvnah]

@WuWei

Reagan was not conservative.

Especially not that long ago. He grew in his conservatism as he aged.

[WuWei]

@MidwestIndy

For all the good the “protesting” did in MI

https://www.yahoo.com/gma/michigan-judge-sides-governor-lawsuit-over-coronavirus-shelter-150552120--abc-news-topstories.html

Court says the governor’s order stays in place.

And the protesting will continue and grow.

[Guvnah]

@Borgia_dude

@conan

But YOU don’t get the make that decision for them. And thus the point.

Oops, I’m sorry. I meant to post as a quote. Let me amend it for you.

“I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” - Ronald Reagan

Reagan didn’t get to stop citizens on the street from carrying either. The alleged “gunmen” in the protest that precipitated this thread demonstrates that.

[WuWei]

@Guvnah

@Borgia_dude

@conan

But YOU don’t get the make that decision for them. And thus the point.

Oops, I’m sorry. I meant to post as a quote. Let me amend it for you.

“I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.” - Ronald Reagan

Reagan didn’t get to stop citizens on the street from carrying either. The alleged “gunmen” in the protest that precipitated this thread demonstrates that.

He did as governor in his state. To this day.

[Borgia_dude]

@WuWei

@Borgia_dude

I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.

Can you think of a reason why on the street today a citizen shouldn’t be carrying loaded weapons?

Dude, you know those aren’t my words, they are Reagan’s.

I don’t care.

[WuWei]

@Borgia_dude

@WuWei

@Borgia_dude

I can think of no reason why on the street today a citizen should be carrying loaded weapons.

Can you think of a reason why on the street today a citizen shouldn’t be carrying loaded weapons?

Dude, you know those aren’t my words, they are Reagan’s.

I don’t care.

You didn’t attribute it as a quote.

Sometimes traps don’t work.

[Smyrna]

@H_Arendt

Along with “sheeple” – hallmarks of elitist attitudes.

That’s why I use my own word “sheople”, so you’d know I’m just a regular guy.

[Camp]

Yes it will.

Most are missing the severity of the basic issue of personal liberty.

The protesters are just and righteous. They have been wronged at the most basic level of US culture.

They cooperated and flattened the curve. Now they are being abused simply for being deemed unessential.

The virus crisis exists in NY mass transit and nursing homes. The freedom crisis is in the face of the unessential.

They have been polite so far. I would recommend addressing their grievances immediately.

[H_Arendt]

@WuWei

@H_Arendt

at rifle toting draft dodgers

There were National Guard units deployed to Vietnam. Did you serve?

No Ohio units served.

After two years of counseling young men on how to avoid the draft, I concluded that the resistance to draft was fundamentally immoral and stopped participating. I refused to renew my student deferment but I was never called.

Funny, a few months ago you were insisting I could not be old enough to remember the nineteen-sixties. I am.

[Smyrna]

@CanadianJudo

so you don’t think your better then liberals?
that is what elitism is.

I am different than you…just as I’m different from my wife. I can love somebody and be different…poking fun along the way too…can you?

[WuWei]

@H_Arendt

No Ohio units served.

https://www.ong.ohio.gov/information/history/ong_history.html

[WuWei]

@H_Arendt

Funny, a few months ago you were insisting I could not be old enough to remember the nineteen-sixties. I am.

Are you? Strange.

[Guvnah]

@CanadianJudo

all I see …

When libs say, “all I see…” … it’s not surprising.

[Guvnah]

@Guvnah

I still haven’t seen pics of anyone carrying guns. Or actual “gunmen”.

Of course, I’ve only gotten half way through the thread, so maybe someone found something by now.

OK, still no pics of gun-toting gunmen.

Sneaky’s right. They got libs’ attention. I earlier said they got libs setting their hair on fire.

Oh well.