I survived all that was the Second Amendment March.  There were hundreds of emails, cell and Skype calls, schedule shifting, html and web work, prayer, and promotion.  There was hope and fear.  There was preparation and spending.  And I wasn’t even the organizer of the event.  I was just the Black Man With A Gun, an American that pastors a small Christian church in Washington, DC, leads a household, befriends just about everybody and produces a podcast every week to inspire, entertain and promote the right to keep and bear arms in a amicable way.

The day itself was picturesque.  The Mall was still reeling from the Tea Party, anti-war demonstrators, ecologist, victims and supporters of victims for every world event.  About two thousand people including journalist from all over the world may have touch the grounds during the day.  Buses from the Heartland brought Americans dissatisfied with the government to the place where democracy emanates from.  While we still can gather in a peaceable assembly, we did.  While we still can speak freely, we did.  We did it for awhile together and it was beautiful.  There were no arrests.  There were no injuries.  And we left the place better than we found it thanks to volunteers that traveled twelve hours or better to make it all happen.

It wasn’t all peaches and cream.  There was another assembly across the Potomac where Americans exercised their right to peaceably assembly with arms while they could and the media loved it.  Bald headed men or men in military clothing with firearms looks more menacing than a mother with a baby stroller holding Old Glory.  I gave the best speech I could to encourage shooters to keep on fighting and work together.  I met CNN reporters who preferred me to disparage the NRA, the demographics of the March or some element of government but I resisted the urge to counter what I had just said to my friends to get some TV time.  I learned that being a positive representative of gun ownership will make you socially invisible.  I figured out that being articulate, law abiding and presenting well is not a profitable feature in this business.

On episode 162 of The Urban Shooter Podcast I share the audio of my actual speech and some observations.  Recorded late into the night and early morning I sing an Allman Brothers classic and change the words a little as I am accustomed to doing when the mood hits me.  The Second Amendment March allowed me to get Michael Bane, Skip Coryell, Rich Heller, and radio personality “Mancow” into my church at the same time.  We will never be the same.  This has been a phenomenal week.

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Kenn Blanchard

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