Joan really doesn’t know which way is up.
I have been writing about the Texas Open Carry movement of late. These are folks who believe they can “normalize” the open carrying of guns on the streets of our communities. The thing is, it is NOT normal to walk around the streets with an openly carried loaded gun- no matter what these folks think. They are getting away with this because the corporate gun lobby has been pushing for and succeeded in passing gun permit laws that allow people to carry their guns openly in public places. The agenda of the NRA lobbyists and leaders is not a peaceful one.
Its not a peaceful agenda? So why is there ZERO violence at these rallies and at the NRA Convention? Any time I hear somebody say they don’t like open carry I ask them if they’re OK with Police Officers open carrying. They are…because they’re used to it. At the same time I’ve heard people talking about going to foreign nations where the police open carry long guns. I’ve seen Boston PD on a few occasions open-carrying MP5 Sub-machineguns, and that IS a bit unsettling. Because I’m not used to it, and its rare.
Open carry activism is designed to make the average citizen used to seeing people exercising their rights. It won’t take long before they associate it with people NOT being violent, and that’s the LAST thing anti-rights activists want, hence when they create images like this:

And this

You see they WANT us to be violent, only we’re not.
These are not “law abiding” gun owners. Do we have to look back at the Civil War in our country and the ugly time when slave owners brutalized black Americans? What is this stuff all about anyway? Such hatred and racism should not be tolerated in 2013 America.
You mean the origins of the anti-gun agenda in America? Yeah, she pushes on.
These are folks who actually believe they are in danger from their own government. They make false references to Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union as if the same could happen here. This leads to ramped up paranoia and fear and ramped up groups of home grown terrorists. It is devoid of all common sense. Most Americans simply do not believe this stuff.
Yeah because those citizens of Pre-Nazi Germany and of Pre-Communist Russia, and Pre-Soviet Union Europe all KNEW the horrors that were coming. I’m not saying the United States is Hell-Bent to become a genocidal dictatorship, but I am certainly not ignoring the massive amounts of nations that have become just that and saying “It would never happen here!”
As for “Most Americans Not believing This Stuff”, I think the recent NSA Spying scandals have changed that, but Joan still has her head in the sand.
Thankfully she’s a minority.