Monday, January 4, 2010

New Mexico Teabaggers Are Now Armed at Rally

This looks like a dangerous trend, teabaggers bringing guns to tea parties. The confluence of the 1st and 2nd Amendments in New Mexico looks like a dangerous development.

"Nearly 350 right-wing protestors crowded a New Mexico town’s busiest intersection yesterday to protest President Obama’s supposed anti-gun agenda and the “government takeover of our health care system.” While the event mostly looked like any other recent right-wing rally — complete with signs reading “replace the communists in DC” and “the sky is falling! A black man is president!” — what set this protest apart was that there “were plenty of handguns and rifles displayed.”

The local Tea Party and a group called the Second Amendment Task Force (2ATF, a reference to the ATF, which enforces gun laws) encouraged people to bring guns to the event in Alamogordo, NM, in order to “put a positive light on gun ownership,” said 2ATF’s founder Dan Woodruff. While the two protests were technically separate, they were planned together for the same day in adjacent locations. Otero Tea Party Patriots coordinator Don Omey said he was “proud” of the gun-toters. “That’s what we need to turn some minds around,” Omey said. Under New Mexico law, it’s legal for anyone over the age of 19 to open-carry a holstered firearm in most public places.

And while there was no violence during the event, one protestor wearing a Tea Party shirt said his loaded gun was a “very open threat” to anyone who might “try to take over the country completely as a socialist communist [state].”

1 comment:

vomamike said...

The NRA has convinced these people that Obama is going to take their guns away. Reality and conspiracy - two opposing positions make for a toxic brew of the 1st & 2nd amendments. Ginning up that 'cowboy' mentality - Lord help us!!!