TX 2nd Amendment "march"

[X_Digger]

http://www.texasguntalk.com/forums/activism/4970-second-amendment-march-3.html#post159697

~40 people. Big whoop. I couldn't find _any_ local coverage.

I expect more of the same tomorrow in VA/DC, but with more press.

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. The teabagger flag?

I don't think I could march behind that, regardless of the cause.

[X_Digger]

2. The Gadsden is a revolutionary-era flag.

Whatever current group of nutters choose to rally behind it doesn't negate the previous 225+ years of the flag's history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadsden_flag

"At the Congress, Continental Colonel Christopher Gadsden represented his home state of South Carolina. He was one of three members of the Marine Committee who were outfitting the first naval mission. It is unclear whether Gadsden took his inspiration from the Marines' drums, or if he inspired them himself.

Before the departure of that first mission, the newly appointed commander-in-chief of the Navy, Commodore Esek Hopkins, received the yellow rattlesnake flag described above from Gadsden to serve as his distinctive personal standard.

Gadsden also presented a copy of this flag to the South Carolina legislature in Charleston, South Carolina. This was recorded in the South Carolina congressional journals:

Col. Gadsden presented to the Congress an elegant standard, such as is to be used by the commander in chief of the American navy; being a yellow field, with a lively representation of a rattle-snake in the middle, in the attitude of going to strike, and these words underneath, "Don't Tread on Me!""

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I know the history of that yellow flag

I stand by what I said. I couldn't march behind it,