The jackass on the left with three extra magazines on him says it all. He probably has one in his rifle for a total of 120 rounds of ammo. Exactly WTF did he think was going to happen? A firefight in Afghanistan? Even if his "reasoning" for brining a rifle was to defend himself from being attacked, all that extra ammo sure looks like he has fantasies of standing there and Ramboing an entire crowd.

Then of course is the fact that to an untrained eye they look like national guard. No wonder the police were tiptoeing around. They would have had to call the real national guard if shooting started.

I'm sure obtuse gunners will object, probably telling us how no one was shot. Well obtuse gunners, the INTIMIDATION factor is darn near as bad as shooting someone. This is the crud gunners have spawned.

I doubt that most of these open carry jackasses have anything in the way of military experience. What that picture shows is a whole lot of desperate compensation going on...for a whole lot of shortcomings.

People in our country are brought up with the idea that carrying a gun makes one impermeable. If you think your untouchable or at the top of the food chain because of this killing tool, you no longer have to think, reason or figure out how to preserve life; it's all about ending one's adversary. There's no need for communication, no need for valour, it's instant end of argument and ending the argument in this way is devolutionary. We sink further into stupidity.

This is as much a problem with police as anyone. They don't have to figure out how to survive or preserve or how to play the chess board under pressure. All they have to do is comand, shoot then eat lunch.

Sometimes I'm convinced that America's relationship to weapons is the reason our country is failing as a civilized society and that ignorance is expanding.

at Ferguson, Standing Rock, the March on Washington, and others? I've been to countless protests. No one showed up armed except the police, and they were ARMED!