I’m no fan of guns, but as a liberal I support the constitution - even the second amendment.  Obviously there has been debate about the meaning of the second amendment, just like everything else in the great document.

The second amendment was put in place so that a citizenry enraged by a tyrannical government would be equipped to overthrow said government. I haven’t yet read “The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot”, but after hearing Naomi Wolf on KRCL’s RadioActive (unfortunately I don’t see the particular interview on their site), I’m thinking we’re dangerously close to needing to use those guns.  It’s just too bad that the Republican media machine has most of the nation’s gun owners believing everything they say, and they’d likely stay quiet if our government deteriorated to tyranny.

Enter “Shooting Liberally”.  Our neighbors to the east in Denver have a Shooting Liberally chapter, and there’s also a Charleston and Manhattan chapter.  

As Justin Krebs, founder and Executive Director of Living Liberally said, “It’s time for those of us famous for our fierce loyalty to the First Amendment get to try our hand at the Second.”

I don’t know of anyone in our group that would be interested in a Shooting Liberally, but I’m sure there are some liberals out there who would be.  We live in one of the most conservative, gun-loving states in the nation.  Hell, Utah has one of the most liberal concealed-carry permit courses that people come here just to get armed.  

So, would a Shooting Liberally fly here?

From Columbia News Service: 

unable to shock and awe us!

Embarrassing Utah

Obama as a monkey in a suit…
click the link and scroll down.
We can expect at least four years of worse.

We’ve been calling the event we held last Friday a fundraiser and party because while the point was to raise funds to help grow Living Liberally, we also wanted it to be mostly about having fun. I think we accomplished both.

We planned and planned, and still had some organizational problems, but if we do it again we’ll try to learn from those mistakes.  Overall though, I’d say the night was no less than awesome.  We saw a lot of people we haven’t seen in a while and met a lot of new people.

Scott McCoy did a great job of emceeing the whole thing, with the help of Bill Frost.  I read Bill Frost’s pieces in City Weekly each week and know how funny he is in writing, but I had forgotten just how funny he is in conversation too.  

Syqnys wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea, so to speak, but I think a lot of people liked the message of his hip-hop lyrics.  I know Sen. McCoy enjoyed the song “Sexy Time”, which was pro-gay rights in a not so obvious way.

The “Bush in Six Words” contest went really well too, better than we thought it would.  We had a lot of entries, and I think Representative Christine Johnson had a lot of fun judging the entries. We lost some of the entries, but the ones we found are at the bottom of this post.  

I unfortunately missed the 3.2 improv because I got a stupid work call, but I did see them gathering some of the politicians and audience members together and then I heard strange noises coming from inside the warehouse.  It sounded like a lot of fun.  Oh, and the two improv performers were named Heather and Jeremiah.  We didn’t plan that.