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Has anyone been able to find out if there will be any official organized program of speakers etc. or will this be just a bunch of us standing up holding signs? I'll be there anyway but I want to know what to expect. I think its critical to the success of these events that there is some sort of official event organizers to direct the rally so things don't develop into a mass confusion and chaos more than any rally already has the potential to be.

I have not been able to find out much more than there is a rally on 1/19. The event is posted on many websites but only offers date and time and no other info.

ShepherdTX wrote:I may come though I am not sure yet. I have to check availability with the director of social activities (aka, the wife).

Going or not though, I do have a concern about carrying at an event like that. I know we can carry, but what is the risk of antis who start randomly accusing the CHLers in the group of "brandishing" their weapons? If I were an evil anti and I saw a pro-gun group protesting, one of the things I would do is start hollering that some of them were intentionally exposing their concealed weapons to get them arrested and hauled off to jail.

Becareful and be aware of the anti-gunners who will show up to disrupt the rally. Don't let them get the better of us. We must stay focused on our message and clearly communicate our disapproval of what is happening and speak intelligently. We must be prepared to defend our position verbally and quickly. We must prepare our talking points and brush up on our historical precedents against gun control, ie fail policies and government take over, UK, Australia, USSR, China, NAZI Germany, Venezuela etc.

It would serve us well to comprehensively get all our points across clearly, concisely, and intelligently.

The media will key in on what they think fits the stereotype, any camoflauge wearing, scraggly bearded, pontailed guy getting emotional and rambling incoherently coming off as a gun nut crazy on the fringe of society. What we must come off as we are clean cut main stream society, we are the majority. We are law abiding, hard working, regular folks.

It doesn't matter to the other side but lets not give them anything to use against us to portray us the way they want to.

I definitely support a peaceful protest and will definitely attend. My only concern is has this protest been properly vetted?

Doesn't an official protest require special permits and proper notice to the local government?

I know what some will say" I don't need permission...." as they are hauled off to jail for unlawful assembly. Things could turn into a fiasco really quick if this is not done properly.

I would like to have Mr. Cotton or someone who knows about this kind of thing to weigh in.

If it was organized by the NRA or the TSRA I would have no doubt as to it's legitimacy or legality. Normally protest organizers have a predetermined organized plan on how and what message to deliver and a organizers to direct the protest.

A bunch of random gun owners with signs and no cohesive message shouting and getting emotional would not reflect well on us. This needs to be done, but done correctly.

Let's all plan to attend but do our homework on what exactly is planned by organizers and how this thing is likely to turn out.