President Obama’s OFA campaign machine, recently renamed Organizing For Action, called for a National Day of Action in support of laws that would limit your right to self-defense, ban guns and magazines, and devote your tax dollars to the creation of anti-gun propaganda. I was curious what an anti-gun rally looked like, so I headed over to a planned location today for a better look.
From the Arizonan’s For Gun Safety mailer:
a number of rallies at local Congressional offices to promote the President’s Plan to Reduce Gun Violence, including Universal Background Checks, a Ban on Assault Weapons and High Capacity Ammunition Magazines, a National Gun Trafficking Law, and Research on Gun Violence by the Centers for Disease Control.
Here’s a photo outside of Congressman Matt Salmon’s Gilbert, AZ office, 15 minutes into the big protest.
I kept looking around for this protest, because surely it would be a large gathering, based on the amount of time the media provides to anti-rights groups and their anti-gun agenda. Surely, the balance in viewpoints the media claims to strive for would indicate that this should be a big rally, dwarfing the turnout for the pro-Second Amendment rally held at the state capitol last weekend.
I counted six police officers outside watching the building, which is five more than I saw at last weekend’s pro-gun rally, so I had to be at the right place. The officers were keeping a close eye on me, probably because of my snazzy GUTNTAG seasonings T-shirt. As I was leaving, I finally spotted a group of people gathered on a balcony at the same building where Congressman Salmon’s Arizona office is located. I can’t be certain these six to ten people were protesters, or just office workers outside on a smoke break, as they didn’t have any signs. If they were exercising their right to petition an elected official, I wasn’t about to interfere with their rights.
So there you have it, that’s what an anti-rights/anti-gun rally looks like in Arizona. Keep this in mind when the news media gives equal, or greater, amounts of airtime to anti-gun groups in the name of “balance”.
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1 The Anti-Gun Rally | Shall Not Be Questioned // Feb 22, 2013 at 2:22 pm
[…] a little compare and contrast between a pro-Second Amendment rally and a planned gun control rally. Only they couldn’t find the anti-gun rally. By the end of the trip, they thought they might have possibly found the rally. However, they then […]
2 alanstorm // Feb 22, 2013 at 5:32 pm
We might as well give up now – how can we compete with such overwhelming numbers?
3 Capitalist Pig // Feb 22, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Keep your chin up, Alan. They may have Bloomberg’s money and a bunch of fake Twitter accounts, but only you can can outnumber them!
4 Billll // Feb 23, 2013 at 4:24 pm
I heard nothing at all about the planned OFA rally in Denver either.
Had about 800 today though.
5 Capitalist Pig // Feb 23, 2013 at 4:42 pm
The OFA protest in Tucson had “dozens” according to yesterday’s local news, but the video footage only showed one person at a time and no crowd.
Organizers for the Arizona pro-gun rights rally on 2/23 have estimated 1,500 in attendance today. Congressman Matt Salmon was a speaker at today’s rally too.
6 Feb. 23 – Phoenix ‘Day of Resistance’ 2nd Amendment Rally // Feb 23, 2013 at 9:01 pm
[…] OFA National Day of Action in Support of Gun Control – AZ Style […]
7 SayUncle » Anti-gun rally // Feb 24, 2013 at 8:00 am
[…] No one showed up […]
8 Old NFO // Feb 24, 2013 at 7:40 pm
Didn’t we ‘see’ this before, like in Pittsburg, and St. Louis??? Or maybe we just ‘imagined’ it…
9 Astroturfing | Shall Not Be Questioned // Feb 25, 2013 at 11:50 am
[…] screw fellow union members out of jobs. You can hardly blame them, since without astroturf efforts, this is what the anti-gun movement looks like. Meanwhile, the Day of Resistance seemed to have good turnout in a lot of places, such as this […]