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SF18C wrote:

Right2Carry wrote:
I was there as well and experienced a mixture of emotions. I was proud to be there with my wife and son yet terribly disappointed at the turnout for a state of this size. We should have easily had 50-100 thousand people there supporting gun rights. Like I stated mixed emotions about the rally.

That is part of the problem, the wife really wanted to go (as did I) but its a 5 hour drive to Austin from here (yes we live in Texas)!

airboss wrote:I was in Austin yesterday.

Everyone I talked to was very passionate, one of the speakers even made a remark about how polite we are to each other. Tru dat!

I made it a point to talk to a few of the LEO's, they couldn't have been nicer, I even went inside the Capital using the "CHL" lane, and I just wonder why we can't do something like that at major airport instead of the cluster we're doing now. Took a few pictures, had lunch at the Texas Chili Parlor, whose menu hasn't changed in at least 30 years!

But I'm concerned. Ok, granted, there wasn't a lot of notice, and maybe there wasn't an awful lot of publicity. It's a little difficult to estimate crowd size, a few of the amateur guessers put it at maybe in the neighborhood of 1000-1500. If I were a betting man, I'd say the over/under line would be in that range. Taking that at face value, it would put our turnout at roughly 1/10 of the number of people who showed up for the college basketball game (UT/KU) going on only a few short blocks away. Oh, and not to bash the state college or anything but they are in the middle of a losing season, and have yet to win a conference game: yet defenders of the second amendment can only muster maybe 10% of the attendees of a crappy basketball game. Taking that math one step further, we drew .00082% of Metro Austin and .00005769% of the state of Texas. I sadly fear we're losing it, and it's only a matter of time.

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