This is the Cro-Magnum Party.

Are these "peaceful" Christians? Should they refudiate violence if they don't get their way? LOL

Talk about morbidly obese white men walking around with guns. Stupid fat men who would probably have a heart attack if they were ever faced with exercise mental or physical.

okay, sorry, I just gotta say it: It is so obvious what those guns are substituting for!

They HAVE to carry guns, because they're too damn fat to either fight or run away.

They're fat, stupid, and too obtuse to even feel embarrassed. It's not something you could call "groupthink" for obvious reasons, although the psychology involved seems to be the same.

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This bullshit will rear its ugly head more often as intimidating Liberals with their pop guns will seep its way into the conversation with increasing frequency. We had an incident here where some pinhead felt it appropriate to send a message in a Liberal (Unitarian) church here in Wisconsin by showing up to a service sporting a sidearm.

Some Wisconsinite felt Unitarians were so threatening he had to bring a weapon to their church and show them who was boss? Unbelievable.

I may have totally missed it, but any information on what town this rally was held in?

"I think that Sarah Palin is the smartest woman politician I have ever came across."

The only interpretation I can come up with for that bone-head remark is that she is the only woman politician you have ever came across.

Man so many subjects come to mind when I see a group of people walking in front of a black hummer with semi-assualt rifles and handguns. It's like a movie script. Can't you see the slow move of this bearded guy with the gun strapped to his chest. Of course I am not really sure how this affects it's audience but I think the last thing I want in America is a politician surrounded by armed supporters. It brings to mind dictatorships, militia movements and general incivility.

I know guns are not abnormal in Alaska but do most, even a small minority of people really go to your everyday parade or rally with weapons? I do not have children but when I was in grade school, I had a policy of not being at a party where I knew a gun was present. It just makes me uncomfortable. Accidents can happen and when you add underage drinking to the equation your asking for possible conflict. I do realize that many gun owners are nothing short of
grade-A citizens and as I grew up it is their right to own and handle a weapon provided that they have proper licensing and have passed whatever state-background check is required.

Probably, though, in the lower 48, it does raise some eyebrows," Miller added.

Pretty sure it would raise eyebrows in Hawaii, too!

All these people afraid the government will take their guns...it's pitiful. Even here in CT, a right wing friend of mine said, "The BATF would be freaked out if they saw what was in the root cellars around this state." And I just thought man what a lot of useless hardware, and these are probably people bitching and moaning about town budgets and teacher salaries, yet they spend megabucks on their stupid, useless guns. Pitiful.

Too bad they were provided with professionally printed signs. It would be much better if they let them misspell their own.

Armed, fat, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

There sure are a lot of screaming and noisy kids in this film, including one so upset that his mother asks [right at the very beginning] if he wants to go back to the car.

Are these children reacting in fear to the large number of openly displayed weapons, or what ? ?

Guns, Shakespeare, and Sarah Palin all in one day, this day of 7/19/2010. What a day.

I suppose since it's Alaska they are all carrying AK 47s.

Carrying guns, and hiding behind little kids.

Getting very ugly in the U.S.
Just getting the notion into your head that you should bring your automatic rifle along to a civilian political manifestation speaks loudly to the unhinged nature of U.S. discourse.

It's going down a very ugly path. If they don't get the wins they have promised themselves this fall, they will claim that KenyanObama/ACORN stole the election from them.

There will be more guns, until they are used.

And it's not just Alaska, of course.

Why are they most always fat white guys?

I lived in Alaska for 20 years and never saw an assault rifle or handgun, except at a police officer's side. Rifles and shotguns, sure. But displaying assault rifles in public is a new thing.

The bat-shit crazy politics, however, are not new. Indeed, the libertarian/successionist wing of Alaska -- the predecessors of today's Tea Party -- would have been much stronger except for all of the infighting. And infighting + guns = wingnut population control.

If they really cared about civil liberties they'd parade naked.

And there are people who really believe the woman named Sarah Palin should be President? Can you just imagine her inaugural march to the White House....with this group leading her walk? USA would be the laughing stock of the world.

I propose we start calling these Palin folks the "Trigger Happy Cowards" , or THC. Party.

I thought about "Fat Angry White Guy", or FAWG, but I don't want to stigmatize obese people.

It would appear that the majority of the posters are focused upon non salient issues. A man fat or otherwise carrying an assault weapon as a participant in a political rally, parade et al, is the only relevance.

Obviously the weapons are intended to send a message to whomever is the perceived party or person of the opposition party.

It is also interesting to note, that two Black men standing outside of a polling place, one brandishing a hand held WMD, a night stick, was the cause of national debate; while such an arrogant display in Alaska was ignored by the media.

Bush had people arrested for wearing T-shirts uncomplimentary to king Bush during some political event, but fools wear guns to an Obama political event with impunity. Does anyone sense a double standard here?

I go to Alaska every year to fish. Trust me those folks you see are indeed corpulent, but in a fight they are a force with which to be reckoned.

The Court’s interpretation of the second amendment not withstanding, if there is not some reasonable restrictions placed upon gun owners, violence is all but inevitable. I doubt violence will determine the outcome of an election, but he way the tea party is going, it is only a matter of time.

I hope I am wrong, but I have my fears.