There were lots of great signs at all the rally's I've seen photos for.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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As far as the turnout goes, and the press coverage.....I think the nationwide rally's are unprecedented in at least the past several decades. I can't remember anything like this. I don't think it matters much that the MSM didn't cover it....the politicians know it happened, and they know it is unprecedented. For law abiding middle class people to turn out like this in protest for gun rights, nationwide, even in these numbers is unprecedented. It's not a bunch of political activists and professional protestors, but working middle class Americans and their families. They have to know that out of a group like this, the number who can and will show up at such a protest is only a tiny fraction of those who hold the same beliefs.