VIDEO: Rep. Gingrey (R-GA) Encourages Guns at Town Halls

By GottaLaff

Oy:



TPM tell us that there were a dozen with firearms at the Obama event, the same one that I posted about earlier.

This is becoming a bad habit. Why is it happening more and more often? Since when were gun owners' rights trampled? They weren't. So what do these people have to prove, other than their own "manhood"? This is dangerous behavior, unnecessary and unacceptable considering the recent toxic, hostile environment.

As author and former Secret Service agent Joseph Petro is saying right now on the Rachel Maddow Show, stunts like these, carrying weapons to public events, can encourage violence against the president. The threat of force is right out there for all to see, with the very real potential for tragedy, which is not exactly the calm atmosphere the Secret Service--and the more rational and peaceful among us-- strives for.