... between someone doing nothing more than existing in the skin color to which they were born and someone taking an action, bringing a gun to a Presidential town hall/rally -- along with signage echoing our most infamous domestic terrorist, as well as a past Presidential assassin.
I guess where I'm falling here is on the side of defending to the death the right of someone to say something which I disagree with, and that the guy with the gun was 'saying' just that.
As a tangent, (watching Bill Mahr always does this to me...) why hasn't anyone seen a bunch of nutjobs showing up with guns as a solution to replenishing our depleting military reserves? I've heard recruitment's down... ;-)
That'd answer the question of "What do we do if a lot of folks show up with guns." Give them an opportunity to really show their patriotic spirit.
Calling Jefferson a terrorist; harsh, man. Not saying it's not true, but, harsh.
The essence of freedom is proper limitation of government.