By Dean Weingarten
Arizona – -(Ammoland.com)- The open carry march in St. Louis went off without a hitch on Saturday, 25 October.
In stark contrast to unruly and violent Ferguson demonstrators, the open carry marchers, who celebrated the restoration of constitutional rights under the newly passed amendment 5, were polite, considerate, peaceful, and had no violent interactions with the police. From stltoday.com, a counterprotestor complained:
Counterdemonstrator Tef Poe, of Hands Up United and the Organization of Black Struggle, said the calm police reaction was in contrast to police behavior at protests in Ferguson.
“When we protest in a similar manner, without guns, they proceed with aggression and arrest,” Poe said.
Except, as anyone who has watched the news knows, the Ferguson protesters have not protested in a manner that is very similar at all. A commenter, GeronL at freerepublic.com made the following point:
So AI protests people shot by cops, while demanding that only cops carry guns??
Another commenter, cripplecreek noted a similarity with open carry demonstrators in Michigan:
Same way the unionistas complain they were locked out of the state capitol building in Michigan while open carry advocates were allowed to walk around in the building with impunity.
The difference being that the open carry advocates weren’t screaming, hollering, kicking doors and trying to disrupt state business.
This is what you see in open carry marches everywhere. Open carriers are exemplars of good citizens. When people see it, they recognize it. That attracts more activists to open carry marches, and the movement continues to expand around the country.
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About Dean Weingarten;
Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973. He taught the Arizona concealed carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained. He has degrees in meteorology and mining engineering, and recently retired from the Department of Defense after a 30 year career in Army Research, Development, Testing, and Evaluation.
Ferguson and Missouri are going to be the Igniters, trigger points to establish Nationwide rioting, civil & social disturbances and many Criminal Acts. They are waiting on the Grand Jury Annoucement regarding the Brown shooting by the Police Officer.
I dunno, maybe it’s just me. I’d rather be walking down a street in St Louis and see a bunch of ladies and gentlemen walking towards me carrying 2A signs and open carrying guns than a crowd of rioters knocking off business’s. And the 2A folks prefer daylight so they can be seen where the rioters prefer the cover of darkness. I guess I’m just funny that way
Carry on.
I think open carriers of long guns in these marches should carry in traditional military style to avoid the muzzle covering someone else. I mean shouldered muzzle skyward.