Attack on Utah Gun Rally Smacks of Ignorance, Insults & Projection

By David Codrea

U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “People openly carried guns, even assault rifles, to the recent gun rally at the Capitol,” a Friday opinion piece titled “Gun Rally Smacked of Fascism” in The Salt Lake Tribune whines. “The reason for brandishing guns is hard to fathom.”

If they were actually brandishing them, it would be. Except Utah criminal code is quite clear that:

“‘Threatening manner’ does not include: the possession of a dangerous weapon, whether visible or concealed, without additional behavior which is threatening…”

“The question, then, to the armed participants is: What exactly did you have in mind?” the missive continues. “What is the unarmed citizen to think? Are the guns meant to intimidate, to bully the majority? That’s not democracy, that’s fascism.”

What the demonstrators had in mind is obvious to anyone who cared to listen to their concerns rather than immediately dive into prejudice against the very thing the Founders deemed “necessary to the security of a free State.” They don’t want usurpers to violate the oaths they …Read the Rest

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