Gun toting "demonstrator" William Kostric

Let's Just Say It: We're Scared Someone's Going to Try to Kill Barack Obama http://ow.ly/jKUt

"MSNBC just aired video of a man with a pistol strapped to his leg waiting for Barack Obama to arrive at a townhall in New Hampshire."

"The man is carrying a sign that says, "It Is Time to Water the Tree of Liberty." That's a reference to a Thomas Jefferson quote: "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants." It was a favorite slogan of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, who was wearing a T-shirt when he was arrested with a picture of Lincoln on the front and a tree dripping with blood on the back."

"Now, this guy is carrying a legal weapon, says NBC News' Ron Allen. The local chief of police has no objections. Open carriage of licensed handguns is legal in New Hampshire, and the man is standing on the private property of a nearby church (!) that has no problem with an armed man hanging around."

"But let's be clear: anyone watching the mounting rage over, of all things, health care — perhaps one of the most boring and complex policy subjects — has to worry that these people are going to try to kill Barack Obama. That's not an extrapolation from unhinged rhetoric, or a partisan reading of the imagined intentions of our political enemies. It's a rational reading of the anticipated behavior of a man who brandishes a gun at the location where the president is expected to imminently arrive while holding a sign that openly advocates his assassination. And the astonishing, breathtaking, maddening fact that he hasn't been violently taken to the ground by large men wearing suits and earpieces is an open encouragement to anyone else so inclined to give it a shot."

"There are always people who want to kill the president. Generally speaking, they are politically marginalized, insane, and/or too incompetent to come close to achieving their ends. But in the past six months, people who would be inclined to do violence to our political leaders have been affirmatively embraced by the Republican Party and its messaging operation. It's as if there had been a 24-hour cable news channel in 1981 devoted to coverage of Jodie Foster, and what it would take for someone to get her attention. Here's what you get when you have a partisan political establishment that openly trades in themes of violence, xenophobia, paranoia, illegitimacy, and revolution:" http://ow.ly/jKUt

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[Attention101]

That's enough. I'm saving ALL of the comments, but they won't be allowed ( without approval ) anymore. You may think you have the "right" to post hateful profanity ridden comments and incite civil war ( watering the tree ), but I certainly don't have to permit them here. I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding like minds that have videos you can post on.

[MacAppleJack]

2:01 Did he really say "Who would be silly enough to carry a un-loaded gun to a town-hall meeting."?

Seriously!!!!

[TnT9572]

Open carry? A goof ball is someone who open carries, a jack ass brings it to protests. Common sense!!!!!! You can't teach it, or earn it, Hopefully this jackass loses his permit to carry and his firearm!

[95tahoe1]

So how do they tell the difference in a robber and you? Oh your the one without the note?

[Dragonfly6160]

Politicians love to pander to the gun lobby.That is what these open carry laws are about.

[NidrusHellebore]

No I live in a country where they don't want to kill people for being just black.

[cyclohexane1]

what? its 4 times more than most presidents because this one is black. Its common sense, dipshit. There are still racists in this country, do you live under a rock?

[NidrusHellebore]

I don't understand this. How THE FUCK is it possible that someone, that is so close to the president is allowed to carry a bare gun. In every normal situation that guy would have been (forcibly) unarmed! A president that is being threaten over 30 times a day! (which is about 4 times more then most presidents).

[AbridgedSeriesH8r]

You're not even worth the time. Go find a brain please. Or maybe you have join the hive mind and share Rush Limbaugh's.

[AbridgedSeriesH8r]

I'm not praising him here, I'm definitely condemning him. I was trying to emphasize the idiocy of calling him a patriot. I feel that saying he is exercising his rights is idiotic. The bottom line is that you don't bring a gun to a presidential event.