When a demonstration isn’t a demonstration
by digby
Chris Hayes and Mother Jones’ Mark Follman discuss the very obvious fact that people who carry guns to political events to “demonstrate” are actually chilling the free exchange of ideas.
Demonstrating for your political beliefs is as American as apple pie. Organize boycots, march on the capitol, carry a sign, scream at your officials, argue in the face of those who oppose you. But the minute guns enter the picture you are no longer demonstrating, you are physically intimidating people with a deadly weapon. But of course, that’s really the point isn’t it?
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