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Although I am free, my wife it turns out is not (church obligation); so we will not be going. However, we will be attending the Saturday event in Dallas.

wheelgun1958 wrote:I'll be working.

The difficulty with pro-gun rallies is that pro-gun people have jobs, lives, families, responsibilities and committments.

On the other hand, the "occupier" group.....

And this is being held on a Saturday. Surely the 2nd Amendment is important enough to interrupt our busy lives on a Saturday, ONE weekend out of the year? If you have kids, you bring them along and give them a grassroots look at their civic responsibilities as citizens of this country. WE GOT TO WHERE WE ARE PRECISELY because conservatives are too busy to turn out on the streets and demonstrate their displeasure with their government. Is there a SINGLE civil rights issue anywhere on the planet—and have no doubt that the 2nd Amendment is a civil rights issue—that was won by its advocates without turning out into the streets? I think you'd be hard pressed to find one anywhere in human history.

Protesters in Iran turn out for their civil rights knowing beyond any doubt that some of them will not be going home that night. Protestors in China faced down main battle tanks in Tienamen Square. The black civil rights movement in the south in the 1950s, '60s, & early '70s faced police dogs, fire hoses, rioting policemen, and poor excuses for "citizens" who threatened and beat them, shot at them and even lynched them.

Gun owners in America, right now, have the luxury of protesting in the streets without facing that kind of persecution. I don't think it is worth losing your job over.........not YET.......but barring a commitment that is simply inescapable and more important than the immediate defense of the 2nd Amendment, we would be sorry pieces of work if we didn't ALL make it.