I'm with tongodeon on open carry at political meetings--just because I can do it doesn't mean it's a good idea.

That said, if I did do open carry, two things you can be sure of--1.) No bullets in the gun, period. Political crowds make me uneasy even without weaponry and I'm not trained for open carry in those situations and 2.) I'm carrying to make a point of political theater--and at that point, I'm gonna do my best to look like Scary Democrat Librul who believes in Second Amendment.

IOW, the right-wing, NRA's worst nightmare.

And if things ever got to that point, my friend, you can be bloody well assured that the brown stuff has hit the fan because it will take one heck of a lot for me to pull my guns out except for hunting or plinking practice.

One of the commenters on my journal had one of the better descriptions of Rep. Bachmann I've heard yesterday: "If her head was any further up her ass, she'd be a human Klein bottle."