‘Exercising My Rights’: Man Explains Why He Carried Rifle Near Obama Event

"I think people need to get up and do it more."

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August 17, 2009 at 8:51 pm - AP
Dateline: Phoenix, AZ
Just because he can...   August 17th, 2009 - 9:49 pm

He carried his rifle just because he can. Next question?

BJC   August 17th, 2009 - 9:52 pm

Wow Sanchez no wonder you guys made sure you couldn’t hear this guy in your video. I guess he was the wrong color racist for your Cult New Now (CNN)? I know if it would have been your favorite white man racist you would still be shouting about it. Make sure your Cult comrades don’t put this on the air by mistake. We couldn’t have that now could we?

VeeKay   August 17th, 2009 - 10:05 pm

I can’t seem to get this to play, Censorship??????

He did what? Exercized his 2nd Amendment Rights???   August 17th, 2009 - 10:06 pm

Poor CNN! If this law-abiding citizen were a scruffy red neck they would be going BERZERK!

PMG   August 17th, 2009 - 10:07 pm

We need open carry laws here in California!!! So I can quit carrying a concealed weapon all the time.

Dave   August 17th, 2009 - 10:26 pm

Rights are like muscles. If you dont excercise them, they atrophy.

Baba Louie   August 17th, 2009 - 10:29 pm

The right of the PEOPLE to keep and BEAR arms, shall NOT be infringed. Suck on it, liberals.

mnichols   August 17th, 2009 - 10:33 pm

Why is this news. Did he shoot anyone? Did he harass anyone? Were any laws broken? Seems to me he was acting calm and responsibly. I live in Phoenix and have a CCW.
I always carry, and most of the time no one even knows, that’s the point of CCW. So next time your in good Ole AZ that bulge in the guys pants standing next to you is probably not there because he finds you irresistible! LOL!!!!!

It just kills me!
You stupid liberals think a 12 year old can make the decision to have a babies head deflated and sucked from her body without any input from her parents, but a responsible adult is just to immature and hot headed to be trusted with a firearm. Obama was certainly MORE SAFE in AZ with all those guns around than on the streets of D.C.

And I’ve go another news flash for you dimwits… the second amendment was NOT so Johnny Appleseed could go hunting for his dinner. It’s insurance that the governance in this country would FEAR the populace if all else failed and tyranny began to rear it’s ugly head. Our founding fathers had just taken on arguably one of the most powerful militaries on the planet at the time. A LOT of people died and fields were awash in blood, and all of them were to be captured and hung on sight for treason, and they were more afraid of what the government THEY were creating could become than the British.

mnichols   August 17th, 2009 - 10:33 pm

Why is this news. Did he shoot anyone? Did he harass anyone? Were any laws broken? Seems to me he was acting calm and responsibly. I live in Phoenix and have a CCW.
I always carry, and most of the time no one even knows, that’s the point of CCW. So next time your in good Ole AZ that bulge in the guys pants standing next to you is probably not there because he finds you irresistible! LOL!!!!!

It just kills me!
You stupid liberals think a 12 year old can make the decision to have a babies head deflated and sucked from her body without any input from her parents, but a responsible adult is just to immature and hot headed to be trusted with a firearm. Obama was certainly MORE SAFE in AZ with all those guns around than on the streets of D.C.

And I’ve go another news flash for you dimwits… the second amendment was NOT so Johnny Appleseed could go hunting for his dinner. It’s insurance that the governance in this country would FEAR the populace if all else failed and tyranny began to rear it’s ugly head. Our founding fathers had just taken on arguably one of the most powerful militaries on the planet at the time. A LOT of people died and fields were awash in blood, and all of them were to be captured and hung on sight for treason, and they were more afraid of what the government THEY were creating could become than the British.

Ron Victor   August 17th, 2009 - 10:36 pm

wow….great video. It’s so refreshing to see a man exercising his constitutional rights without fear….http://cooperscopy.blogspot.com/

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bluecollarbytes   August 17th, 2009 - 10:43 pm

Personally I think this was needless provocation. Just more meat for media to transform this into a story about ‘the Right’.

Lance Manco   August 17th, 2009 - 10:58 pm

They reported this guy as pro Obama and he isn’t. He is against the health care plan; he is against the government controlling it. Does the media even listen anymore? I know the government doesn’t, mabye they will start to. This guy is cool and has some balls.

CitizenryOfOne   August 17th, 2009 - 11:07 pm

I would love to see more of these ‘demonstrations’ of our rights as U.S. citizens. Maybe then the twits in D.C. would remember just who it is they are working for.

Matt in GA   August 17th, 2009 - 11:51 pm

“I’m against health care in this manner. Stealing it from people, I don’t think that is appropriate”.
This gentleman is doing what every American should do when he suspects that someone is stealing his property. Show up armed. What a Patriot! God bless you whatever your name is. There is hope for the Republic after all …

Calvin&Hobbs   August 18th, 2009 - 12:59 am

This guy is cool, calm, collected, and does a great job expressing his opposition to government intrusion into our lives.

This is the type of “radical mob” the left hates.

We need more just like him.

Oldbluesboy   August 18th, 2009 - 1:16 am

No one seems to mention that this man has been subjected to an F.B.I. background check. What else can you say? Or, whom can you blame? OUR GOVERNMENT!!!!
LIBS are definitely not deep thinkers, including the CNN fools.

Don't be fooled folks!   August 18th, 2009 - 9:21 am

Attention! Attention! Attention!

This is not a black conservative!

Check out the group that he’s around… SEIU!

Attention! Attention! Attention!

dontflagmebro   August 18th, 2009 - 9:37 am

Ignore don’t be fooled the citizen made a good show of 2nd amd rights. No matter how you cut it he did just fine.

Shane99 maybe a nut case   August 18th, 2009 - 9:53 am

Shane99,Who do you plan to kill? From your posting I suggest that you seek help before you become the subject of one of these news threads.

What do you mean, "maybe"?   August 18th, 2009 - 10:02 am

Shane99 IS a nut case. You will be reading about him shortly, I’m afraid. All this unnecessary gun-toting is a bad idea. One of these days someone is going to get hurt. Strong emotions and firearms are a bad mix.

Greg   August 18th, 2009 - 10:24 am

My Hero!!! U DA MAN

joe   August 18th, 2009 - 10:25 am

Too bad this guy is black, it doesn’t quite fit the picture that everyone opposed to Obama is a racist wacko.

Robert B.   August 18th, 2009 - 10:26 am

Awesome. Finally someone with courage.

Robert D. Velasco   August 18th, 2009 - 10:30 am

It does not make much sense to carry a firearm to an event featuring the President of the United States as a ploy to exercise one’s rights. Given that we as Americans do have a right to keep and bear arms, what would we say when a nutjob would see this as an opportunity and grab that gun from this guy and use it to shoot someone there maybe even the President. Believe me, if that were to happen, that would be the end of our “rights”. I for one would be the first to throw my vote to curb gun rights big time. What most people do not think about when they exercise their rights is that doing so usually ends up with someone else’s rights being trampled upon.

Travis   August 18th, 2009 - 12:48 pm

http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp

Stupid CON-servatives   August 18th, 2009 - 10:26 pm

Guns have NO place at political gatherings of any kind. Allowing them near the president is NUTS, I have a feeling that the paradigm has shifted. Whether intentional or not. A black man with an assault rifle is a game changer.

This was suggested by someone yesterday. Though this guy is not right wing his gun will confuse the conservatives who have racist tendencies. WHAT WILL THEY DO NOW? WHAT HAPPENS WHEN MORE BLACKS SHOW UP WITH GUNS? THIS IS GETTING VERY INTERESTING.

Blacks exercising 2nd Amendment rights will take them out of their COMFORT LEVEL. STAY TUNED!

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