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HOW DO WE GET THOSE RIGHTS BACK?
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The legislative process and electing folks who will implement laws that reflect your point of view? Court challenges to laws that seem to violate the BOR?
How about that!
If you want to throw up veiled references to revolution and bloodshed - then this tread is going nowhere.
The issue, again, is if we have to convince folks that the RKBA needs to be implemented more strongly - did this type of action influence folks outside the choir in the direction that is productive to the cause?
It's not whether you get all hot and bothered by seeing it. Is it productive?
So talk to nongunners or undecided on the issue. Were they positively influenced?
I would remind you all of another well known process called the innoculation effect. Make a weak or offensive argument for something and later better arguments are not valued.
So do guns at the rallies, with an implicit threat of violence, help - or do they hurt?
Saying it is their right may be correct but does it work? Subtle point that passes folks by. The gun world is know for being enamoured with the righteous tantrum as compared to being effective in some instances.
I recall such tantrums against CCW bills - we don't need them, we have the 2nd Amend. Well, did that do any good? Or did a rational legislative process work better?