This rant from Marie Cocco...

This rant from Marie Cocco about guns at protests and guns in general is more of the same brainless twaddle we've come to expect from the gun control. The gist of Cocco's comments are that the mere presence of a firearm endangers everyone around it, the Obama administration is bending over for the NRA, and we're nuts to think the "government" is planning to take our guns away. I guess whether you would agree with her points" depends on the particular lens through which you view the world. Hers is all firearms are bad [except those in the hands of "trained" local, state, or federal authorities] and all gun owners are delusional lens. The fact that we've been fighting to maintain our right to keep and bear arms for the last forty years and how that might influence our attitudes is outside the range of her blinders. As is the meaning of the right to keep and bear arms.

They’ve been showing up for President Barack Obama’s public appearances, boldly displaying their perfectly state-permitted firearms.

The state doesn't "permit" me to possess firearm. the state doesn't grant the the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution doesn't grant me the right either. I have that right as a living, breathing human being. The Constitution merely acknowledges what already exists.

At the beginning of her rant Cocco asks the question "So what will placate the armed and dangerous gun guys?" and provides her own answer "Nothing." That's not correct. Most gun owners will be placated when the anti-gun contingent truly acknowledge that we have a right to keep and bear arms and prove it by ceasing attempts to limit or abolish it. They can also get the hell out of our lives and let us live it as we choose so as we harm no one else. That I suspect is a bit beyond her.

H/T to Jacob G. Hornberger