Nutty gun march must not enter D.C.
The 31-year-old former Marine and radio talk show host wants to lead armed demonstrators on a march across Memorial Bridge from Arlington National Cemetery around the Capitol, Supreme Court and the White House. Kokesh is calling on the thousands he hopes will join him (as of this writing, the count stands at 2,673) to march “with rifles loaded & slung across our backs to put the government on notice that we will not be intimidated & cower in submission to tyranny.”
Kokesh plans this to be “an act of civil disobedience, not a permitted event.” Fine. Happens all the time. But there’s just one problem. Openly or concealed, it is illegal to carry a gun in the District of Columbia. But that’s no issue for Kokesh. “There will be coordination with DC law enforcement prior to the event,” he writes on his blog. “I will recommend that they do the best they can to honor their oaths and escort us on our route.” Translation: skirt the law.
While Kokesh insists that violence isn’t the protest’s aim, the threat of it lurks on his blog....
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That is so twentieth century. This is how we deal with protesters in D.C in the modern day:
This is
BLU-82 Daisy Cutter
And will be arrested.
Meanwhile, if it's an average day two or three people will be shot east of the river and they'll have the headlines they want ("peaceful gun owners arrested! dangerous inner-city thugs ignored by police!"
. Expect whatever poor soul in Anacostia who catches a bullet that day to be lionized like Mary Jo Kopechne.
On a per capita basis, it's clearly a safer city than many.
I'd note the preposterously lax gun laws in most of that top 10.
Yeah! I lived there in the 1990s. It was a violence free paradise 
And, yes, when you gentrify a city, crime goes down, like happened in DC.
You always seem so interested in hard numbers, until they disagree with your positions. 
you can always throw out your twenty year old experience to make a compelling argument.
Tried to run for office here and FAILED. I guess now he wants to elevate his profile.
From the Santa Fe New Mexican...
"Kokesh grew up in Santa Fe, the son of Marla and Charles Kokesh. The elder Kokesh was a California venture capitalist who moved to Santa Fe in the 1990s to buy the Santa Fe Horse Park, but ran into financial misfortunes, including foreclosures on the horse park and his home. In 2009, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged him with misappropriating $45 million in investor funds — a case that remains in negotiation. Charles Kokesh recently sold Dakota Arms, a rifle-manufacturing plant in Sturgis, S.D., to the Remington Co.
Adam Kokesh, 31, was dismissed from the Marines in 2007 for protesting the war in Iraq. He was removed from the 2008 Republican National Convention for protesting during John McCain’s acceptance speech. A fan of Ron Paul, Kokesh ran against Farmington oilman Tom Mullins for the Republican nomination for Northern New Mexico’s seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Mullins took 70 percent of the primary vote, then lost by 14 percent to Democratic incumbent Ben Ray Luján."
When it's insanely crowded and thousands have gathered to see fireworks go boom boom boom these itchy fingered, paranoid fools want to march around with loaded weapons despite the cities laws on firearms? What could possibly go wrong?
I miss the fireworks in DC. And the museums. Don't miss the humidity tho. Or my ignorant racist POS redneck relatives just south of the potomac. Hey, maybe my sweet racist pampered upper middle class elderly mother will be out there with this group of gun toting loonies and I'll see her on TV! Won't that be a proud moment?
