The rally was a peaceful event
Hundreds brought their guns to a Tea Party rally in Greensboro, North Carolina on Saturday to peacefully demonstrate that the Constitution protects the right to own and carry a firearm.
Two hundred attended the Restore the Constitution Rally at the Guildford Courthouse in Battleground Park, openly carrying their pistols and rifles in recognition of a new law allowing people to carry guns at federal parks.
“We want to remind Americans that they have a basic human right to keep and bear arms – both for self-defense and to preserve individual freedom – that is not only enshrined in the Bill of Rights, but is protected only by Americans’ willingness to actually exercise that right,” wrote rally organizer Randy Dye in a statement.
The many speakers at the rally included Congressional candidates Bill Randall and Dr. BJ Lawson, Tennessee gubernatorial candidate June Griffin, Civil War and Constitutional historian John Ainsworth, and conservative blogger Bubba McDowell.
Check out Randy’s Right For full videos of the speeches and more rally pics.
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Good practice for future necessities.
A great display of one of America’s basic rights. Go for it guys —- suck it to them.
Great stuff – makes me want to pack my bags for the States…
HOO-RAH! LET's START DOING THIS UP NORTH!
Gotta love that shirt ;-)
RifleStock 2011
Border Protection Picnic Project
It is time for us to show what we are made of. But, how can we do that?
Suppose a couple thousand patriots, and their families, showed up near the Mexican border, somewhere in Arizona, for a weekend of fun, music, games, shooting, hiking, and, good old fashioned comradery. Would this event be newsworthy? Perhaps approaching that of Woodstock, back in 1969? Would it send a message to the government that, “If you won’t protect our borders, then, we will”?
Riflestock is not intended to be a border operation, itself, though the ability to see the damage done, take pictures of illegal critters, and, perhaps, scare the hell out of some of them, by our sheer numbers, and to actually visit the site of America’s ongoing war with illegal border crossings, is in the offing.
The event is intended to run from Friday, March 18, through Sunday, March 20, with a pig roast (bring your Muslim friends) on Saturday afternoon.
Facilities will include dry trailer parking; dry tent camping facilities, no toilet facilities (bring a shovel, if you are tent camping). There will be no alcoholic beverages (since they don’t mix well with firearms), which will be enforced, if necessary — don’t make it necessary.
If this sounds like your ideal for a spring break vacation, please indicate your tentative (non-binding) intent to participate. We need to know just how many might attend and what form of camping (trailer or tent), and, we’re sure that you, too, would like to know that you are not alone in seeing this as the vacation of your dreams.
Please go to RifleStock 2011 and sign up (non-binding) so that we can get a headcount of how many will be attending this spectacular event.