Jim and I arrived at the very beginning of the rally. The Pledge of Allegiance was said and the Star Spangled Banner was sang. Now, I don't know this for a fact, but I'd be willing to bet that you don't hear either one at anti-gun rallies. Then came 3 hours of great speeches by many great people, members of the CCDL, One Million Moms for Guns, Oath keepers, and other groups and also a gentleman who will be running for Secretary of State(he's got my vote!), a father from Newtown(where the Sandy Hook tragedy took place), two authors(one from Alabama), the attorney who fill be filing a lawsuit against the state on behalf of the CCDL, Ct. Coalition of Sportsmen, Hoffmans Gun Center and the NRA, among many other speakers. It was really great to be among thousands of people that feel the same way I do. The government trys to portray us law-abiding, responsible gun owners as bad, even referred to us as " The Fringe" of Ct. I will say this, I never felt so safe in my life as I did at the rally. Thousands of responsible gun owners(wouldn't be there if they weren't) carrying their pistols openly showing(Jim and I included) and every one was polite and courteous with each other. No fights, no arguments, no incidents whatsoever. It must piss the anti-gunners off! The laws they try to push only affect these people. Not the criminals!
I met alot of really nice people at the rally, the above pic is two of them(sorry I didn't get your names, but hopefully you will both read this post and leave comments) the other is Jim. The gentleman with the beautiful black powder rifle(that he assembled himself, this past winter) had the cool idea of bringing that, since it seems that's the way government wants it, we are only allowed muskets. It was great meeting you both.
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| Jimmy getting pics for his blog |
As you can kinda see from my pics(it was impossible to get one pic showing how many people were there) there were thousands of people in attendance. I knew that mainstream media would downplay it. So, I recorded all the local news at 6:00 and 11:00. Now keep in mind that any anti-gun propaganda gets full coverage from the media. At the 6:00 news, ABC and NBC made mention and did a quick video on the rally, ABC made no mention to the amount of attendees, NBC said that thousands attended. Cool. CBS made no mention of the rally at all, on either broadcast. Now, keep in mind, this is local news and there were thousands of armed law-abiding citizens on the capitol lawn. Not a word from CBS(you can't ignore us, we're not gonna disappear). On the 11:00 news, ABC and NBC each aired there brief story about the rally, except this time NBC said that there were hundreds in attendance. Not cool. The media tells you what government wants you to hear. My last picture says this perfectly. The government/media is using the Sandy Hook tragedy to push their agenda. I really hope that new laws can be overturned and the exiting laws be enforced more. There are already laws on the books for the criminals, we don't need any for the law-abiding citizens.
Well, I'm gonna end this post now, but I know I'm gonna think of more I should have said. I know that I will be at any future gun-rights rally that comes up and I will do anything in my power to uphold the Constitution. First of which, will be voting for people that believe in the Constitution. Anyways, anyone that read this post, I urge you to read my friend Jim's blog WARRIORS-BIKERS-PEOPLE-PLACES-THINGS, he also did a post about the rally(I wouldn't read his until I posted mine, didn't want to unintentionally copy) and he writes and words things much better than me. Hope to see even more at the next rally. Thanks for listening, Kevin