My Day At The Gun Rights Rally

I took a very very rare Saturday off from the NARN (with a pre-recorded show) to attend the big gun rights rally last weekend.

The rally – co-sponsored by the MN Gun Owners’ Caucus, the NRA and the RNC – drew around 3,000 people.  The Strib, sure as can be, called it “hundreds”; it was just like 2004 all over again.

There was a throng of great speakers – but I didn’t get to do much listening.  I was a zone captain, leading a group of marshals that were watching out for ringers and troublemakers in the area in front of the stage.  It was packed, of course – I logged 10,000 steps in the 2.5 hours I was going back and forth across the area.   The only “trouble”…well, we’ll come back to that.

The event was a huge success – and needs to be even bigger, if we’re going to show the legislature, the media, and Big Left who is boss.  But the human rights crew were the big winners.

The biggest losers?  The media – who largely beclowned themselves:

  • Channels 4 and 5 spent more time interviewing the four criminal-safety advocates who held a “picnic” 100 hards away from the group than they spent interviewing actual attendees.
  • Channel 9’s coverage focused on the one, single, solitary Confederate flag that showed up, as well as interviewing the least well-spoken people they could find.  Their slant was nauseating, and their reporter  – who was visibly upset by being around gun owners – was unforgiveable.  Channel 9 may be an even bigger DFL PR firm than Channel 11.
  • Minnesota Public Radio’s coverage was relatively fair on the surface – but word surfaced that they’re working on a story trying to tie gun rights groups to “racism”.  And I’m sure you could find racists there – heck, they’re everywhere, including among the public radio audience.

One (?) anti-gunner tweeted out a predictable “It looks like a lot of old white men”.   Which was an intetersting non-observation observation; two of the speakers were black, two were women, one was a Hawaiian native.  The crows was as white as, well, Minnesota at large (and as the critic) – but I saw black, Latino, native, Pacific islander, and many Asian attendees; the rally was vastly more racially diverse than any “Protect” MN or Moms Want Action meeting.

Feel the diversity!

Not to mention reps from the Pink Pistols – the gay self-defense group.

And the most striking thing I noticed?

Most gun rallies I’ve been to have in fact been overwhelmingly male – because shooters are overwhelmingly male.

But this year, for the first time, I noticed women coming to the event.  They streamed in in twos and threes and in small groups of women (along with countless others who came apparently with their significant others), and largely kept a low profile – fewer t-shits and flags, but lots of listening and participation and – the important part – signing up with the MNGOC and the NRA.

Big Left is terrified of groups like this – because they know that:

  1. 3,000 of the good guys has more political effect than 30,000 of their people – because the good guys come to play for keeps.  Most lefty marchers are out to see and be seen and skip school and hit on babes and in quite a few cases earn a few bucks.  The shooters?  They’re in it for freedom.  There’s no contest.
  2. Notwithstanding the Parkland students’ carefully coiffed media presence, younger people are pro-gun.  We saw that at the rally, too – lots of young people, male and female.  The next generation is promising.

Of course, there’s a way to go.  If you’re a shooter, you need to stand up and be heard – and never stop it.  The orcs are doing whatever they can to sap your freedom; they need to be smacked down every session, every hearing, every bill, every day.

Saturday was a good start.

18 thoughts on “My Day At The Gun Rights Rally

  1. Did the Strib really cover it? I didn’t see anything on the front page Sunday – you know, the place where they put all the stories leading up to and including the student anti-gun rally. The Strib did run an article about the two gun shops that were broken into over the weekend, though. The comment section there ended up covering the gun-rights rally, though – which is probably why the comments section was deleted from the article by Sunday afternoon.

    The Pioneer Press did put it on the front page. Lots of comments on the story, including several off-topic pontifications by our friend Emery

  2. From Emery’s comment on the Pioneer Press site: “The guys with offices on either side of me own guns. One of them bought an AK-47 last week; he already owns an AR-15. He plans to shoot it at a shooting range, but mostly just wants to own it. He’s a nice guy, good at his job. It’s very unlikely that he’ll ever use one of his guns in anger, but therein lies the problem. The probability that he will act in anger one day, multiplied by the number of guys armed like he is, adds up to a regular drumbeat of killings.”

    I know, math is hard. Let me help you out. We know from history that the probability that the AR-15 owner who works in the office next to you will snap and massacre people is zero. Zero times the number of other, similar AR-15 owners, is still zero.

    You see, the problem wasn’t with the math – the math was easy. The problem is with your samples. You’re comparing apples to oranges.

    You think the odds of a middle-aged NRA member shooting up the joint are the same as the odds of an unemployed 19-24 year old shooting up the joint because, hey, they both have guns so they must have identical temperaments and mental health histories. They do not. Treating them as if the do is why your solutions never work.

  3. Nice report, Mitch, thanks.

    The only “trouble”…well, we’ll come back to that.

    Did you come back? I didn’t read anything that I interpreted or could interpret as trouble.

    As to the “lot of old white men” comment, I guess I don’t understand the point. OWM have no civil rights or aren’t deserving of same? Or OWM votes or even opinions are not as valid as those who aren’t?

  4. As to the “lot of old white men” comment, I guess I don’t understand the point. OWM have no civil rights or aren’t deserving of same? Or OWM votes or even opinions are not as valid as those who aren’t?

    The sooner the OWMs die off and leave the world to the smart but oppressed people, the better. An ice floe is being prepared for us.

  5. The Strib:

    Rally attendees booed mentions of Gov. Mark Dayton, Sen. Amy Klobuchar and state Sen. Ron Latz, DFL-St. Louis Park, who introduced two gun-safety measures that were rejected earlier this week. They jeered mandatory gun registration, chamber limits and universal background checks.

    No bias there!

  6. “They jeered mandatory gun registration, chamber limits and universal background checks.”
    I’m all for chamber limits: “one round at a time to a chamber” I say – having once experienced a misfire(40 yr old ammunition) in an old 30-30 I am committed to the proposition of chamber limits

  7. Bwaaaahahahahahahhahahahaha!

    Emery plagiarized his comment on the PP story, and got called out for it!!

    Gaaaahahahahahahahaha. WHAT. A. MORON.

  8. Emery,

    Their first headline said “Hundreds”. They revised after a couple hours (and probably dozens of emails).

  9. MBerg; I don’t like to quibble, but the only two articles in the Strib wrote: /”The event billed as the “Second Amendment Rally” drew an estimated 2,000 people, according to the Minnesota State Patrol.”/

    MPR wrote similar attendance (2,000) estimates.

    Perhaps you’re confusing the student event where the Strib wrote: /”Hundreds of Minnesota students walk out, rally for gun control on 19th anniversary of Columbine shooting.”/

    With all due respect, your claims looks to be more “fake news”.

  10. “MBerg; I don’t like to quibble…”

    LMAO…you colossal buffoon. Do you really think anyone gives a damn what you think? You’ve been identified as a liar and a dishonest POS.

    What is it with these reprobates? They combine a Dunning-Kruger twisted sense of self esteem, a Forrest Gump lack of self-awareness and Hillary Clinton sense of entitlement.

    DG; Peevee; Emery and 99% of the 1/4 wits commenting on leftist echo chambers display the same derangement.

    I’m no shrink, but one if the criteria I’ve seen for diagnosing mental illness is
    “A psychological disorder, also known as a mental disorder, is a pattern of behavioral or psychological symptoms that impact multiple life areas and create distress for the person experiencing these symptoms.”

    But what if part of the imparement is an inability to detect impacts?

    The DSM-5 ( a discredited source, I know) defines a mental illness as

    “.a syndrome characterized by​ a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognitive, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning”

    If leftist buffoons didn’t hide behind their anonymity, wouldn’t their insane babbling have a significant impact on their lives? Serial killers often function perfectly in society because they hide their disease by wearing the mask of a well adjusted person. I see the same thing with lefty kooks running around loose on the internet.

    Liberalism is a mental illness. The problem is, like sexual deviency, liberalism runs rampant among the ranks of so called mental health experts tasked with treating sufferers. They’ve successfully normalized many dangerous and destructive mental disturbances, and our society has paid a heavy price for that.

  11. W/R/T the facebook screen grab, there is diversity there: 2 are follicle-ly challenged, one has a hair color not grey.

  12. Oh, swiftee, you’re so easy to get a rise out of, so anxious to fight. It’s no wonder people pick on you; the reaction is so predictable.

  13. Lol…Dunning-Kruger, getting a rise out of people is probably the only outlet you have for sexual release, but observing your symptoms doesn’t qualify, so put the tissue away.

    Electrotherapy isn’t half as bad as you might have heard, you poor thing. Remember, Randal McMurphy came to enjoy it; I bet you will too.

  14. When someone says “You stole that,” an honest person would reply, “No, I didn’t, here’s my receipt.” An ordinary, decent criminal would say, “Yeah, I did, you got me.”

    If the reply is “Oh, you’re such a troll,” that’s not a denial. It’s an evasion which commonly is taken as an admission that yes, you did steal it but you don’t have the integrity to admit it. It shows lack of character. Nobody respects or admires a person who lacks character.

    This is why you have no friends.

  15. You see these apples? Don’t they remind you of those oranges?

    You boys are a hoot defending the indefensible. JD, didn’t you recently claim Trump’s lies were simply another form of BS. Try using that Defense in a Courtroom. 😏

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