Thought - Guns as Nooses

Can you imagine the apoplexy if 20 or so blacks or hispanics or Muslims showed up at a Republican event carrying assault weapons? What if the anti-Bush folks had been carrying weapons? Think they'd have defended that?

There's an unmentioned racial component to these gun toting incidents. White men toting guns as a display of force to "protest" a black leader. Within the context of American racial history, there's a clear implied threat there. It's a step below carrying nooses, but it's in the same family.

(And I know one of those gun toters was black, but he's pretty clearly a nutball who is hanging with the "militias.")