Every group has a subset that will turn off moderates and give the opposite's sides activists something to latch on to in order to paint them as freaks and weirdos.
In your face open carry = Westboro = these guys
Yup, its your right to do so. Its also within other peoples' rights to have an opinion about it and use that opinion to lobby against you.
Well, then, we'll hear no more from him in opposition to any future gun restrictions that make it to the legislature(s) based on public opinion.
I just got scolded for handing out too much rep today, but you certainly deserve it.
I would add that all the rights addressed in the First Amendment, the rights to free speech, press, assembly, petition, and religion, necessarily rest on the concept of freedom of thought, the very foundation being attacked from every direction in today's society. Further, the freedom of thought will necessarily default at some point to the right to unpopular thoughts and the right to be wrong, neither of which are presently accepted, further complicated by the fact that the latter is generally a matter of opinion rather than objective fact, leading to our present batch of thought police assigning judgment of 'right' and 'wrong' based not on objective fact, but their opinions which are held up as social standards and in some cases legal standards. It is generally not this bad yet in the US, but a pastor can be arrested in Canada (Britain also, if I am not mistaken) for simply reading the Bible from cover to cover including those passages which step on some toes.
You are absolutely right! Those individuals may be nitwits, but they are indeed entitled to their rights of free speech, bearing arms, and perhaps most important, their right to their own thoughts and beliefs, no matter how strongly they may clash with ours.
