For those of you ready to run away from the gun owning patriots and pretend to be Ghandi, keep this in mind:
If your activism is successful, as you hope it is, you WILL be needing a gun because the means through which, and by whom, the power of the state is taken and fostered, is such that if you can save the republic with banners, they will respond with guns.
It has already been proven to happen. It was back in 1775.
Now, if you all want to get scared and go and run from guns and be all about peaceful activism, fine. But you will end up spending your lives like Birchers and Reaganites doing petitions that nobody will care about, getting screwed by the GOP (just like.....2008!), and doing eat-meat-retreat while the plutocrats in power enjoy the sound of your chains rattling.
So keep that in mind. A successful movement takes ALL elements from economic to armed. Leave out armed - like so many "Conservatives" who loved the state and it's power to much they dare not consider anything other than playing politics, and you will be just like the useless old hacks we all had to deal with at the GOP conventions.