The first half of your post is saying that we don't want to look like a mob. The second half explains that we're in the mob rule era.
When I saw that you started with "No." I thought you were objecting to his "(no guns)" stipulation and that we were on the same page. Nope.
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This is in reply to both you and gunskill....
Yes, we know the left wing media (e.g., pretty much all of them) would twist open carry marches into some sort of threat to the government and our fellow citizens. The general public doesn't get to see the photos/video of the police officers socializing with the marchers. Although they are overwhelmingly peaceful and without incident the general public doesn't perceive them that way, they see it as violent simply because the guns are there. We know that having open carry at a protest/march is a way to guarantee the peace because of the "MAD" (mutually assured destruction) factor but many do not understand that (and because gun owners are not violent people). However, I don't think that's the main reason to forgo holding the march with weapons... there is the legal/logistical factor that's harder to overcome. I seriously doubt you will be cleared to hold a march in Washington DC while carrying weapons (open carry is illegal) and if your idea is "screw it, do it anyway" the only thing that would happen would be mass arrests. In addition, it wouldn't be practical for everyone to drive into DC because airlines, trains and buses would refuse to take weapons on their trips once word of the march got out.
No, best to have a weaponless march, but come armed with good speakers who can convey the real facts/stats about gun violence, gun ownership and speak to what the 2nd amendment really means and why it's so necessary. We should come with our children and show that we're not all old white men, this year, more African Americans became gun owners then any other. We need to show the rest of the country and particularly the elites here in the northeast that we're real people with real families, from all walks of life.
I'm a software engineer, my best friend, who's African American, is also a software engineer, we go shooting together frequently... he's got another friend of Korean descent who's also in IT and a shooting enthusiast. They have multi-cultural families and are they very concerned about the Biden gun control plan. So I don't really agree with gunskill except that it would be portrayed by the media as a "white" protest so I would take steps to mitigate that, like make Colion Noir one of the keynote speakers. I would also keep the anti-government and conspiracy theorists off the stage, be very careful to screen all speakers for ties to white supremacy and/or the alt-right, this shouldn't be a political march, we're not protesting the election of Joe Biden, we're protesting his state policy of erasing our rights.
