"Blinky dudes" with Rambo holsters in t-shirts carrying politically charged signs have the same rights as the lawyer in a three-piece suit, and as the POTUS.
No, we don't. I don't have SS protection, a lifetime pension, and medical, and a 'office' forever in Harlem, paid for by the tax payers, oh, that's me.
I don't have the right to buy any gun made in any gun store, in New York, as police do, or retired LEO do.
I don't have the right to qualify, and CCW in all 50 states, on the basis of a Federal Law for LEO, and retired LEO.
For nearly 40 years, with AA, I have not had the 'same rights' as others.
The legal issue is our rights have been limited, or taken by our elected officials, and, they have tried, and we allowed it, the creating of different classes of people, in what should be a classless society.
Under the 14th amendment, and equal protection, these situations should NOT exist.
HOW DO WE GET THOSE RIGHTS BACK?
This is NOT "If you want to throw up veiled references to revolution and bloodshed - then this tread is going nowhere. " as is posted by Meyer below. It is plain language, period.
I will go out on a limb and say these folks have a point. Now is a different time then when all these laws where passed, and our sensibility has changed. Bin Laden woke us up on 9/11, as did the Rodney King riots.
Our LEO are not capable of protecting us all the time, or in the case of the King riots, themselves. In fact, even with real threats, the Supreme Court has held the LEO's are under no Constitutional obligation to protect a citizen. This current SC has realized that in view of that ruling, we have to protect ourselves, and, the Second Amendment states arms are the way it is to be done. We have become 'comfortable', secure, and, 9/11, and the southern invasion have changed that situation, and, slowly people are becoming aware of that.
By bringing the issues to the front, with OC, perhaps people will realize that what worked for the last 50 years will not work now. Perhaps these patriots are right, and that now is the time to return to the roots, and founding principles of this country.