why are people bringing assault rifles to obama health care rallies?

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To kill things. Why else would anyone bring a gun anywhere?

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To kill things. Why else would anyone bring a gun anywhere?

Right, everytime anybody has ever brought a gun anywhere their intention was to kill.  Your logic is astonishing.

I don't know why else you would own a gun. To look cool? To pretend to kill things? The purpose of a gun is to kill or seriously injure.

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Still haven't pointed out what's wrong with my logic. If the purpose of a gun is to kill or seriously injure and we assume that these people aren't bringing guns to these things randomly but for a reason, then it makes sense that they're bringing the gun with violent intentions.

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These nutjobs are neither police officers or security guards. And they certainly aren't going to these things to shoot skeet...

But whatever. Clearly, anyone who ever carries a gun with him anywhere is a freedom fighter exercising his rights and anyone who raises the slightest concern is a fascist.

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Plenty of reasons why there thankfully hasn't been violence yet. For one, most of these people are paranoid and insecure cowards. The delusional fear they have of black helicopters or socialism extends to these situations; behind their big guns, they're scared little people. Second, luckily police have been at most of these things, to keep things from spiraling out of control. They've been kept in designated areas away from the politicians with whose blood they'd like to water that tree of liberty of theirs. Lastly, some of these people no doubt want to convey only the threat of killing/injury/violence, so that debate is stifled and people, not wishing to endanger themselves for a political issue, shut up.