You know, the teabaggin', wingnutty, politically intimidating gun toters on the right seem to think that if they flash a little hardware, we on the left will go all weak-kneed with fright. But I must admit that it is scary to have armed and angry people milling around at a political gathering, especially if they are angry at you or your side of the argument. Imagine how scary it would be if one of us lefty types went to a teabagger rally to disagree with them at the top of our lungs, like they do to us.
It's such an intimidating thought, but I'd sure like them to know that I disagree with them, so I think I'll exercise my 2nd Amendment rights--given that we lefty types have them, too, you know--from a nearby rooftop.
Now, just because I'll be sitting in a lawn chair several stories up, sipping a cool PBR and cleaning my Remington model 700, chambered in hand loaded .308, is no reason at all that anyone in the teabaggin' crowd below should be worried. What's wrong with a citizen legally exercising his 2nd Amendment rights right out in the open? It's legal, isn't it? And if I need a BSA 5x20 tactical scope to see the rally, it's just 'cause my eyesight isn't what it used to be. And you never know when a nice 8-point buck is going to walk by.
Point is, I'm just a good old Redneck Liberal on a rooftop readin' my copy of Mother Jones and feelin' a little righteous rage and drinking a twelver of a good blue-collar beer and exercisin' my rights. No reason for the teabaggin' set way below to worry. Not at all.