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Kadie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:47 PM
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'Restore the Constitution' Rally in Arlington, VA - pics

Don Syfrett of Dallas, Ga. , makes a phone call while demonstrating for first and second amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va. , Monday, April 19, 2010.


Armed protesters demonstrate for first and second amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va, Monday, April 19, 2010.


Armed protesters gather for a group photo after holding a rally for first and second amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va. , Monday, April 19, 2010.


Scott Campanaro of Altoona, Pennsylvania carries a M-1 Garand rifle at "Restore the Constitution Rally 4-19-2010" at Gravelly Point Park in Virginia, across the Potomac River in Washington, April 19, 2010.


A participant at "Restore the Constitution Rally 4-19-2010" is seen with a rifle and a handgun at Gravelly Point Park in Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, April 19, 2010.


Armed protesters demonstrate for first and second amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va. , Monday, April 19, 2010.


With a gun slung over her shoulder, Rachel Cook, left, a nurse from Knoxville, Ten. , and her husband Garrett, listen to remarks as armed protesters gathered to demonstrate for first and second amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Fort Hunt Park in Alexandria, Va, Monday, April 19, 2010.


Participants listen to a speaker at "Restore the Constitution Rally 4-19-2010" at Gravelly Point Park in Virginia, across the Potomac River in Washington, April 19, 2010.


Chuck Headings, left, and Randy Dye, right, protest during a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va. , Monday, April 19, 2010.


A participant at "Restore the Constitution Rally 4-19-2010" is seen with a rifle and a handgun at Gravelly Point Park in Virginia, across the Potomac River in Washington, April 19, 2010.


Don Syfrett of Dallas, Ga. , makes a phone call while demonstrating for first and second amendment rights at a "Restore the Constitution" rally at Gravelly Point Park in Arlington, Va, Monday, April 19, 2010.


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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:50 PM
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1. Ok is it me or was this poorly atended?
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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:51 PM
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5. Just a little bit of understatement.....
:)
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:53 PM
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10. I hope that's indicative...
Of the true numbers of asshats that want this sort of "protest."

This is so much like TeaBaggers protesting taxes on the day that 95% of us received a tax cut... are they protesting their inability to cary a weapon... as they carry a weapon?

:shrug:
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:53 PM
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11. Nope, not you.
Regardless of what some of the hand-wringers and hair-pullers predicted, it was no big deal.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:56 PM
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17. Xpet for the few cops pulling extra duty
watching these few idiots.
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:03 PM
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24. Define 'poorly.'
Define 'attended.'










Define 'that?'
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Winterblues Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:08 PM
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27. Why would you say that? I counted twenty one in their group photo
:shrug: By the time it makes Fox news there will be close to a million there.
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gmoney Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:29 PM
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37. "Man, it's not the numbers, it the HEART that counts. Dinnya see Red Dawn, man?
"Like just Patrick Swayze and some kids fought off the RUSSKIES! The 21 Asshat Brigade is going to bring the big hurt on ANYONE who tries to give us tax cuts or let us buy health insurance."

:sarcasm:
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:50 PM
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2. Think I'll go play a little Modern Warfare...
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:51 PM
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3. They are all standing around, freely, with guns and rifles...
Remind me again of what needs to be restored? What is their gripe? Seems they are doing what they want to do here... scares the fuck out of me, but whatever.
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Subdivisions Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:51 PM
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6. Not only that, Obama changed the rule that allowed them to carry in national parks. n/t
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:57 PM
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19. Like when he gave us a tax cut...
And the TeaBaggers decided that was a good day for their anti-tax protest...

Oh, brother.

Thankfully these asshats are as short in number as they are in IQ.
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mediaman007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:52 PM
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9. And they had enough money to travel to Arlington. I couldn't do that
at the drop of a hat!
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:54 PM
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13. IIRC, this has been planned for over a year. n/t
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:58 PM
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20. That makes it appear all the more a failure...
Edited on Mon Apr-19-10 04:58 PM by JuniperLea
This is all they could muster after a year of planning? Pretty pathetic, thankfully.
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:00 PM
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21. Wait, sorry, think I misspoke.. the DC one was in planning for over a year..
.. but was still only attended by what looks like 2-300.
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The_Commonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:04 PM
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35. Their gripe is that they can't carry their guns...
...in my neighborhood, even though Brooklyn is part of the United States. The 2nd Amendment says that they should be able to carry their guns anywhere, and they can't. There are plenty of people around here who feel the same way.

Sorry, folks. I don't want this in my neighborhood:





I don't want to go into the Starbucks and see this:





Keep the fucking guns at home.
I don't care how many you own, or how often you go to the shooting range.
Do all the hunting and collecting you want.
But if you show up on Flatbush Ave looking like that, you ARE going to get arrested...
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X_Digger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:26 PM
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36. But you're okay with this?
Edited on Mon Apr-19-10 07:28 PM by X_Digger


(hint, the optic is on backwards.)
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The_Commonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 07:38 PM
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38. I'm not quite sure what you're getting at...
...but, no I'm not OK with that.

After the suicide bombing in the Moscow subway a few weeks ago, the NYC subways were overrun with guys looking like that. It was a complete waste, they were only there to freak us out.

Their only purpose is instill fear in the populace, so that we don't go and loot that building in your photo.
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:51 PM
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4. Pretty anemic-looking turnout
Not to mention melanin-challenged. Too bad; looks like there was nobody there for them to shoot. Unless they turned their weapons on each other. Which I sincerely hope doesn't happen.
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xultar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:16 PM
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32. Looks like the kids who didn't get to play cops and robbers with the cool kids.
Now they can play but the cool kids have moved the fuck on.
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golddigger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:52 PM
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7. It looks to me like
there's more photographers and newsman than demonstrators.
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:53 PM
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12. Maybe because all the gun-owning Democrats are too busy for this sort of thing?
Besides, I get the feeling teabaggers pretty much co-opted both marches in DC today. Not my cup of joe.
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TransitJohn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:52 PM
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8. There's more press than protesters there.
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:54 PM
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14. Oh, God! He's not trying to take away our bicycles too.
Do these idiots have any idea how stupid they look?
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:54 PM
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15. an armed nurse - what a great idea
"I put that poor bastard in 12 out of his misery!"
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d_b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:55 PM
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16. surely there were more than that...
:wtf:
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 04:56 PM
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18. AK-47? Or is that the Chinese model in the fifth picture?
Communist weapons? Really?
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FightingIrish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:00 PM
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22. It looks a lot like this one.

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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:02 PM
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23. LOL!
:thumbsup:
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derby378 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:04 PM
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25. They're built to last
You could submerge one in mud for a month or run it over with a truck, and there's a really good chance it'll still work as soon as you pick it up.

I have nothing but respect for the M4, but it tends to be a little fussy at times.
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:13 PM
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28. I know how sturdy they are,
but that's not the point here. These people are against anything 'socialist, communist,' and, you know, 'Obamaist,' but don't mind having medicare and AK-47s? Sweet Baby Jesus, the next thing you learn is that they drive a Hyundai with the confederate flag on it!
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JBoy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:08 PM
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26. Guy on the phone: "Where the fuck is everyone? Am I at the right place?"
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:14 PM
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29. LOL!
.... :thumbsup: ....


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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:38 PM
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34. geez honey, it's standing room only and I'm lucky I got a spot
just watch the faux snooze tonite, I'll be the one outstanding in the field.
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TlalocW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:16 PM
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30. I'm estimating about 25,000 people attended the rally based on those photos
I'm applying for a job at Fox News by the way.

TlalocW
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:16 PM
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31. Oh look..the Washington Monument
Snicker
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demtenjeep Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Apr-19-10 05:24 PM
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33. most of those dumbass flags happened BEFORE they were under constitution
are they that frickin dumb?
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