Morrow county fairgrounds is posted

[Brian D.]

Hello. Glad I was able to join up yesterday. Things went so smoothly that it gave me time to ponder a bit while walking around enjoying that red raspberry milkshake. If I could write a series of Brian D.'s Rules on Open Carry Events, at the top would be:

1) Document (record) what happens, both out in the open and more surreptitiously.

2) Know the applicable laws, and have printed copies of them with you.

3) Bring a crowd. To date, even the most unfriendly law enforcement and/or local government officials seem unwilling to confront and challenge, much less arrest, a group that numbers high into the double digits. in fact those folks will be pretty much absent from the immediate vicinity.

4) If you can't bring a crowd, find some "seasoned" looking participants to join you. It's been my experience that there's a perception that we are not so easily cowed or bullied as younger activists. If nothing else, a Daniel Harless type LEO isn't gonna call us middle aged folks "punks" or the like. Nor treat us with that level of disrespect. Hence keeping everyone's temperment a bit cooler during any encounter.

Sorry about the "Rules" thing there, Tweed Ring, I'm sort of tipping my hat your way with it.