How are we to act?

I got involved in a blog post about a gun shop protest in Philadelphia by the mild-mannered folks at Heeding God's Call. The videos linked in the post are innocuous, but here are 4 others in the guy's archive that show some, uh, questionable behavior. Mike, in the comments, seems to be of the type that believes that firearm owners must be on his standard of their best behavior or risk giving the anti-gunners ammunition in the struggle. My (and apparently Sebastian's as well) point is that you can't expect that some exhuberence doesn't come through.

But how are we to act? This is a constitutional right (not to mention a natural right of self-defence) we're talking about here. I know that many would argue that it's the only right that can result in people getting killed, but I believe the founders considered that a feature, not a bug.

Overall, the pro-firearm folks at the protest were knowledgable and were addressing the concerns of HGC with facts, demonstrating that nothing HGC advocates will do anything to stop violence. But that's the rub. The folks at HGC can't come to grips that they or we or anyone else will ever stop violence. They or we or anyone else can never, under any conditions, stop those intent on violence from obtaining firearms (or knives, or baseball bats, or crowbars, ...).

And the biggest problem I have with HGC, or any other group like them, is that they want to force me to live my life under their pacifist rules.

And when push comes to shove, how am I to act then?

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