The man carrying an AR-15 at yesterday’s presidential speech in Arizona participated in a video project by RP4409, a channel of Ron Paul fans from the far right; Ernest Hancock, who designed the “Ron Paul rEVOLution” logo, appears in the video, too. The man, identified as “Chris,” and identified elsewhere as “Chris B.,” gets into a series of arguments about how “all taxation is theft” and how it’s the duty of patriots to “forcefully resist people forcing their will on us.”
“If the burden of all this thievery gets too thick,” says Chris, “and you can’t make it anymore? If that’s what’s necessary, that’s what’s necessary.”
In an interview at the Freedom’s Phoenix web site, Hancock conducts a longer interviewwith Chris and other protesters carrying guns at the rally. “I’m almost always armed,” says Chris. “Sometimes when I take a shower I leave it on the sink.”
Watch the video after the jump.
Here’s a photo of Chris B. being interviewed by RP4409, from a forum at ArizonaShooting.com.
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