MAN ARRESTED AT TEXAS OBAMA TOWN HALL FOR NOT CARRYING GUN
by R J Shulman

TYLER, Texas - (PTSD News) - A 37 year-old man was taken into custody by local police for protesting at an Obama health care town hall meeting without bringing his gun. Donald Lake of nearby Greenville was arrested under a Texas law which requires anyone protesting a president who didn't carry the state of Texas to bring their firearms to the rally.

In addition, Lake was charged with failure to support the Second Amendment when he showed up to the meeting empty handed. "We got this guy dead to rights," said Sgt. Billy Jim Hoggens of the Tyler Police Department, "the nerve of him to leave his guns at home. He might hate America as much as Obama."

"I was not protesting," protested Lake who told the Post Times Sun Dispatch, "I came into town to buy some pet chow for my bulldog, Mr. Happy. I got caught up in the frantic crowd where this guy said he couldn't get health insurance and wanted to make sure the government kept its hands off of health care reform and the next thing I know I was in handcuffs."

The Post Times Sun Dispatch learned this wasn't Lake's first brush with the law. In 2004, he was arrested near a rally for George W. Bush because his dog's collar had a peace sign on it. "Mr. Happy may look tough," Lake said, "but he is a sweet peaceful dog and the collar with the peace signs on it was his favorite."

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