Mass. 2013 2A State House Demonstration, ATTENDEES post here

[SamH]

I saw thousands of folks at the Mass. State House supporting the 2nd Amendment.

Who from Massachusetts WAS ABLE to make it ?

Please share your pix and/or videos

I was there.

Crowd was respectful.

BPD did a great job.

This video (48 seconds) was close to the end of the event, just to get a glimpse of the massive crowd.



http://youtu.be/4ZqjcmHyruI



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[xero2099]

i was there

 

[HTRN]

I was there.

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Goal got my mug:

 

[OCB]

I was there.

 

[kendall-op]

Present,,,,

 

[beaker]

Wow. What a great day. I want to see the opening speech on YouTube ASAP! What better way to demonstrate why the 2nd amendment is so important. The turnout was great but this is only the first of many public demonstrations er need to do. Well done to the organizers and participants. Many of the speeches were awesome, well done to you all!

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Here is the youtube vid, thanks to whomever did this.


Here is the better version from itsTime2A


Here is the text from June4th - Here is his post here on NES

The past Monday I decided to visit the Minuteman Park in Lexington and pay tribute to Captain John Parker and his fellow minutemen. A thought came to my mind, that the founding fathers of the United States and Chairman Mao had one thing in common: they all realized that guns are important political instruments. Their similarities, however, ended there:

Chairman Mao wrote: ‘Political power grows out of barrel of a gun’, and he dictated: ‘The party shall command the gun’. James Madison and his compatriots, however, believing that the power of the state is derived from the consent of the governed, ratified that ‘the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed’.

23 years ago, I was a college freshman exercising my freedom of speech and assembly in Tian’anmen Square, much like we are doing here today. We grew frustrated by the restriction of personal freedoms and the corrupted Chinese government, and we thought peaceful protest would make the country better. Our young passion and patriotism was crushed by hails of full metal jackets out of AK47’s. (Some AK purists here would argue they were really type 56’s). We could not fight back, because we did not have an inch of iron in our hands, to borrow a Chinese expression: we were unarmed.

Gun owners like us often say: the Second Amendment is the protector against a tyrannical government. Some may argument that a man with a rifle is no match to the military machines of today, so such beliefs are no longer relevant. However, 20 million peaceful Beijing citizens in 1989, sure wished that they had a few million rifles in their hands!

Freedom is not free. Liberty has costs. We recognize that in this free society, criminals or mentally deranged could get weapons and murder the innocents. The answer, however, is not to disarm the law abiding citizens. Not only criminals and the deranged will violate the laws anyway, but more importantly, when a government turns criminal, when a government turns deranged, the body count will not be five, ten or twenty, but hundreds, like in Tian’anmen Square, or millions, counted in the 90-year history of the Chinese Communist Party.

Our constitutional republic may look fuzzy and loving today (if you think so, I’ve got a TSA agent you should meet), but keep in mind that absolute power corrupts absolutely! And when a government has monopoly on guns, it has absolute power!

Do you know that the Chinese Constitution guarantees almost all the nice things we have here? It is written that Chinese citizens enjoy freedom of speech and religion, they have human and property rights, and that such rights cannot be taken away without due process of the law. And do you know what? Chinese people do not have the right to keep and bear arms. I assure you all those nice guarantees, are not worth the paper they are printed on, because when the government has all the guns, they have all the rights.

I was not born a citizen of the United States, I was naturalized in 2007. In 2008, I became a proud gun owner. To me, a rifle is not for sporting or hunting, it is an instrument of freedom. It guarantees that I cannot be coerced, that I have free will, and that I am a free man.

Now suppose the 20 million Beijing citizens had had a few million rifles, how many rounds should they have been ALLOWED to load into their magazines? 10? 7? How about 3?

Never, never, never give up the fight, my friends. It may be a small step that you give up your rifle, or a 30-round magazine, but it will be a giant leap in the destruction of this great republic.

In closing I will quote the words of Captain John Parker: "Stand your ground. Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want to have a war, let it begin here."


Here is a great pic from another rally:

 

[RATTLESNAKE]

I was there great event.. Met a few Nes'ers let's keep it going!! Great speakers ,great crowd ,great day..

 

[beaker]

Another pic

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[Yazz]

Reported for Duty Sir! Great showing!

 

[schnips]

I was there. Ran into some friends who I didn't expect to see. Definitely a large crowd.

 

[centermass181]

I was there with my wife. Brought six non nes guys with me. Including the one who hollered wolverines. Yeah, he's with me.

 

[Baserock]

I don't know the worman in this picture, she was walking right in front of us on the common.

Was there, great turnout and great speakers.

http://s27.beta.photobucket.com/user/jertyson/library/2A Rally

 

[jujutsuka]

I was there and all I can say is WOW! If this is what we can manage on short notice, there is no telling what we can do with prep time. HUGE thanks to the organizers, speakers and all who attended. It's truly heartening to see the a big turnout of like-minded people. Looking forward to the next event!

 

[rsal452]

I was there with the girlfriend

 

[ranger4-7]

I was there and have to say that I was impressed and moved by the event. Fantastic job by the organizers!

Chris

 

[David Balkus]

I was there...So proud of everyone!

 

[Cheesehead]

I was there

 

[June4th]

Was there. Let this be the beginning of a tidal wave that turn things around.

 

[Hwy Htr]

A friend and I attended and found a great showing of support. I understand most of us work for a living to pay the bills to support our families, which would have made it difficult to make such an appearence but if this had happened during a weekday, may have helped gotten the word out to those in the dark about this topic. That said, it was still a nice feeling to see so many out there.

 

[crak]

Nice work. After the speeches I was shocked to turn around and see how deep the crowd was behind me.

 

[193rdsoldier]

I was there. It was very encouraging to see all the supporters on such short notice. Thanks again for the ride Business!

 

[Terrys]

I was there.

 

[DONALDG-HOG]

I was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Reyn]

i was there

 

[beach]

I was there

 

[MikeH]

I was there. Good crowd, great signs, wish the loudspeakers were better.

 

[Garys]

Great turn out. I met Minininjer, Reptile, Boris, BillKat, Namedpipes, Jarhead66 and a couple of other NESers whose names I didn't get. Saw Ross too. Saw Cekim, but didn't get to speak to him.

The speeches were very good. Kudos to the people who had never spoke in public before but got up there and gave impassioned speeches.

I have some crappy cell phone pictures that I'll add when I can upload them.

This Youtube site is from a non member who was taking video. He said he was going to upload the video to his Youtube page. It's not there yet, but check back in a bit and hopefully it will be.

 

[LR308_GNR]

Was there for 2 hrs... Saw many faces from past car and truck shoots.

 

[AngelKing]

Was there. Never left the steps and am looking forward to doing it again. Thanks fir an awesome turnout and for the support when we all spoke. I know we were heard

 

[Jacks07]

It's funny heard brief blip on the radio on the way home and they said "a few dozen people". Well done everyone. They won't be able to quiet this or brush it off!