Seriously, are you people insane? Yes, you have every right to carry a weapon, assuming you have the necessary licenses. You absolutely have the right, and I fully support that right. But standing outside of a venue where the President of the United States is speaking, carrying firearms, including assault rifles, while protesting against the president is just antagonistic and irresponsible.
Think about this for a minute. The leader of our nation, who was elected by the people, is speaking in your area. You decide to go protest against him. And as part of that protest, you decide to bring along a weapon? What message are you trying to send? If he doesn’t cow to your protests, you’ll kill him? Are we that uncivilized?
Bringing a firearm, or a weapon at all, to a venue like this, where there are plenty of security officers, is just asking for trouble. First, you’ll be targeted immediately. If anything happens, regardless of whether you’re involved, you’ll be first on the list of people they look at. Second, you’re going to end up reducing the effectiveness of the security forces present. Why? Because you have a visible weapon and have automatically been ratcheted up the list of people that are considered possible dangers. In the end, this means security forces will constantly be watching you, reducing the amount of time spent on watching the crowd as a whole. Again, regardless of whether this is what you intend or not, you are an immediate threat, already identified.
And, even if you do have your head on straight, which I’m not quite sure of right now, you have brought a weapon into a venue with lots of other people. What’s preventing someone else from taking your weapon and using it? And before you point out the hordes of police and other security personnel, realize that they are trained for these situations, whereas you are likely not.
You have every right to carry a weapon, and I fully support you. But please use your head. Let’s not cause more problems than we have already. Antagonizing behavior like this will likely end up with the government thinking more about gun control, which I’m sure you’re completely against.